BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 01:18 PM

It was all noise, no light as far as I could tell here. Firecrackers, M-80s, and quite possibly at least semi-automatic guns. Dreadful few hours to listen to that racket, and it was worse than any July 4 I've heard in recent years. It seems to me it might be shades (or sounds) of things to come.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 12:33 PM

No fireworks at all near us. I was very disappointed :-(

Rest of the evening was good though :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 10:55 AM

Around dusk last night I was picking up revelers in a transport van when the bombardments began. As it darkened the pyrotechnics intensified and I felt like I was driving through a suburban war zone (not to minimalize the experiences of those who have been in an actual war zone). About an hour in a timely rainstorm mostly snuffed things out for the rest of the evening. I almost got religion.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 08:25 AM

Bloody fireworks started around us at ~6pm, went on until 1am. Our five-month-old puppy was pretty scared initially when a huge bang went off above our house while he was doing a pee in the yard, but he settled down eventually, and the rest of the evening passed uneventfully. We were in bed reading at 10:30pm. Got to sleep eventually, some time after 1am.

Thank god that nonsense is over and done with for another year.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 06:53 PM

I'm off towards bed.
See you all next year.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: JennieG
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 04:33 PM

No, I certainly don't, SRS.....no doubt some folk could turn it into a drinking game!

We watched 'Dinner for One', then watched a cricket game on TV - that is to say, Himself watched it through his eyelids occasionally - while I read for a while. We were abed before 11 p.m. There were no (legal) fireworks locally, so the town was quiet.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 03:04 PM

JennieG, I just found a version of Dinner for One on YouTube - that is clever. And as your Wikipedia entry notes, is a classic kind of skit that Red Skelton did, and I remember the Lucille Ball/I Love Lucy episode noted.

I hope you don't try to take a drink every time he does!

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 12:06 PM

All day long, on the hour, check on the fireworks wherever New Year's is happening then. That way when I don't make it to midnight, I've still gotten my celebratory viewing in...

Not leaving the house, though.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 09:01 AM

from about 11.45 people started yelling & yahooing - then when the fireworks started at midnight yahooing got worse, even after the fireworks finished at 12.15 it continued, but fortunately the noise stopped some time back!

Now a police car is making noise, but it either arrived where it was wanted or continued towards it's destination.

it's my bedtime


sandra 1am Wed 1 January

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 08:48 AM

It's 12:45 AM in Sydney right now. Happy New Year, Australia!!

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Charmion
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 08:45 AM

Both snow and rain in the forecast indicate that I would be foolish to poke my nose out the door for anything less enticing than … Hmmm. I can’t think of anything that would entice me into venturing into a potential sleet storm after dark.

This would be a good night to light the fire and drink whisky while providing the cat with a lap to lounge on.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 08:13 AM

HAPPY NEW YEAR AUSTRALIA

IM GLAD i GOT TO SEE A TIMES SQUARE new years before it was corporatized and under heavy security and threat assessments. It was a collection of neighborhood bands and revelers creating their own fun.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 31 Dec 24 - 06:35 AM

We are keeping it low.We lost a very dear life long friend on the 20th
this December.Worked at The Royal College of Art,London;Then became Visiting Tutor at the Royal Acadamy of Arts.He put music to my lyrics,helped me realise many songs.Our son's Godfather.

RIP.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 30 Dec 24 - 07:44 PM

Another quiet night in! For the last few years we have had two of the grandkids to stay while their Mum and Dad go out gallivanting around the neighbours, partying and first-footing, but now said kids are aged 14 and 10, they will be out keeping an eye on their Mum and Dad!
And we auld folks will be having a wee dram in front of the TV - probably BBC ALBA which has the best Hogmanay music programme.
But… we live in Edinburgh, shouldn’t we be out joining the massed throngs on Princes Street? Sorry to say that all the planned outdoor celebrations have been cancelled due to high winds, heavy rain, possible snow. What? Never in midwinter? We haven’t done any of this stuff since about 30 years ago, before it became a big commercial thing, when it was still all free, no tickets, no barriers!

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Dec 24 - 01:07 PM

Family party. Two of them can't join us but, hopefully, we can get then on video link at some point. I need to get some more whisky. Just for seeing the new year in you understand... :-D

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 30 Dec 24 - 09:46 AM

We are having quiet night in.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 24 - 04:45 AM

If I ignore it, will it go away?

I'm just up the road from Sydney's celebrations & my little patch of paradise is where EVERYONE (well, almost everyone) comes to drink the evening away during & after the fireworks.

Folk in our tall buildings (apartments & hotels) can see all the fireworks, & those who fill the street around the corner & it's small park get a limited view.

It's a good evening to listen to my CDs & try to ignore the bangs & roaring crowds.

My part of Sydney is full of dogs (Sydney in general is full of dogs), & I hope their people take steps to help them thru the noise.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Dec 24 - 08:11 PM

Nothing in the evening, but we are going out for lunch with a friend who we don't see often enough due to geographical distance. We're lunching at a pub north of here as our friend is visiting family further north again, so we split the distance.

In the evening we will probably lie back, pat our stomachs, and watch 'Dinner for One'. We'll certainly be in bed long before midnight.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Dec 24 - 07:21 PM

We're planning a gathering at our place on New Years Eve and decided today to make it a celebration of President Carter. On the night he was elected my roomies and I through an all out bash with a washtub full of cheap champagne and various strains of pot. On Tuesday the champagne should be of a better quality and the marijuana medicinal.

Subject: RE: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Dec 24 - 07:14 PM

Keeping the dogs calm. Idiots around here shoot of firecrackers and guns, and the blue heeler is not fond of that kind of noise.

Maybe streaming a movie or sewing, or both. Certainly not going anywhere.

Subject: BS: What plans for New Year's Eve?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 24 - 07:03 PM

I'm staying off the roads and staying out of trouble.
What's everyone else doing?