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31 Dec 99 - 07:16 PM (#156275) Subject: Happy 2000 from UK From: wildlone Its here as I write this it sounds like a war zone outside. Happy new year to all at Mudcat |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:23 PM (#156277) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: catspaw49 GEEZIZ....What a FANTASTIC display!!! Wonder if WWII folks had flashbacks??? Tremendous........... Spaw |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:25 PM (#156278) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Bill D well done UK! I just saw the fireworks from London....spectacular!....Greenwich time is here!! Now WE have 5 hours to wait...but I think I have already seen what I need to...wow!!!Along with pics of the Maoris in New Zealand, that was the best,,... |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:29 PM (#156280) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: McGrath of Harlow Hapy New Year from Harlow - and welcome to the last year of the 20th Century.
Great fireworks - but the cats weren't too sure about them.
Looks like the bug's not got us yet, anyway. |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:37 PM (#156281) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Áine Happy New Year, UK!!! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! I just loved seeing Herself swinging hands with the PM -- what a hoot! Good show boys and girls! Love to all of you, Áine |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:47 PM (#156285) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Brakn Happy New Year, Altrincham,UK. Mick Bracken |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:49 PM (#156288) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Llanfair Just back from the gig. Happy new year. I'm going to be up for most of the night with a retreiver cross who is terrified of fireworks. Hey ho, Hwyl, Bron. |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:49 PM (#156289) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Llanfair Just back from the gig. Happy new year. I'm going to be up for most of the night with a retreiver cross who is terrified of fireworks. Hey ho, Hwyl, Bron. |
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31 Dec 99 - 07:53 PM (#156291) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Richard Bridge Bang bang. |
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31 Dec 99 - 08:18 PM (#156307) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Davey Rather spectacular display you Brits put on. We all got a big thrill watching on the TVs here at work. (oops, I said the dreaded 4-letter word..) Unfortunately I have to be on a Y2K team here in Toronto, watching a bank's network computers at midnight, instead of making music with my friends. My best wishes go out to all you Mudcatters for health, good friends and much music in the coming year and beyond.... Davey... (:>) |
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31 Dec 99 - 08:40 PM (#156322) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Jon Freeman Another Happy New Year form the UK. I just went out to a local pub and got fairly mellow. At the risk of upsetting the royalists, I must say that the highlight of my night was the TV getting switched off in favour of the Pogues "Fairy Tale of New York" on the juke box. Jon |
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31 Dec 99 - 08:44 PM (#156324) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Liz the Squeak Well, now it's done, can I go back to bed please? My ears are still ringing from the discharge of gunpowder - I hereby declare that 2000 should be the year of the asthmatic - we've had a good start!!! Love to all, esp those who are still sober for one reason or another, I had a great time, and only one mouthful of Cava, it can be done!! LTS |
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31 Dec 99 - 09:02 PM (#156342) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: bill\sables All the best to mudcatters wherever you are and a special thankyou to MAX for letting us all get to know each other. Cheers Bill |
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31 Dec 99 - 09:11 PM (#156346) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Curtis & Loretta It's only 8:09 pm here in Minneapolis, but there's fireworks going off in the distance. We can hear them from here, though we can't see them. We're safe and warm in our house, and don't want to venture out. Went to an afternoon New Year's Eve party. Happy 2000 to you all!! Loretta |
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31 Dec 99 - 09:11 PM (#156348) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: catspaw49 This has been a spectacular day on the tube. Just some great scenes. And Bill, you're right...a hat tip to Max! Spaw |
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31 Dec 99 - 09:13 PM (#156350) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Jon Freeman Opps, I forgot to say the TV was switched off when God save the Queen was played. Jon |
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31 Dec 99 - 10:30 PM (#156370) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Micca BBs and happiness to all my Mudcat friends its about 3.30 in the morning and I am just going to bed after a ( purely medicinal) whisky. Lagavulin if you must know. oiche va Micca |
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31 Dec 99 - 10:34 PM (#156371) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Jon Freeman Micca, I wish I'd had some Lagavulin in! It is the best medicine that I know of (as well as being my favouite whisky). Jon |
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31 Dec 99 - 10:36 PM (#156373) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: alison Looked great... and Happy New Year to all .... the bit I liked about the dome was just before the kids ran across to pull down the curtains... the queen had to open the rope to let them out..... maybe whoever was meant to do it forgot.... hahahaha .. or was that the queen's official opening of it... we only got snippets.. didn't see Auld Lang Ayne... they were busy interviewing hungover Irish backpackers on Bondi Beach..... slainte alison |
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31 Dec 99 - 10:47 PM (#156376) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Brendy And a very happy New year to all of you from a white, -10 degrees, Oslo, where it is now 04.37. Janet Baker is singing on the BBC World Service, my new candle is burning nicely on the top of my monitor, and all seems right with the world. "Wouldn't it be nice if it was like this all the time?" - Van the Man. Love and peace - Breandán |
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31 Dec 99 - 10:56 PM (#156377) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Brendy Apropos the pre 12.00 concert in the Dome. They really made a mess of 'All you need is Love' didn't they? Somebody should have given Hucknall and Co. a sheet with the words on it. I thought Jools Holland's face told it all. It was the most entertaining rendition of the song I've heard in years. I noticed HRH didn't cross her arms for 'Auld Lang Syne'. Phillip neither! Nice fireworks though. |
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31 Dec 99 - 11:29 PM (#156386) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: alison Hahaha... yeah only Mick Hucknell came in at the right place in the first verse... we saw that bit...... getting the Bee Gees from somewhere now...... |
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01 Jan 00 - 12:16 AM (#156400) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Escamillo Happy New Year and congratulations for (seems to me) the most musical of the celebrations, the London's. Un abrazo - Andrés Magré |
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01 Jan 00 - 01:20 AM (#156438) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) Happy new year, UKkians! Those were great fireworks over the old Thames! T. |
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01 Jan 00 - 04:19 AM (#156486) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: roopoo Happy New Year to the world! I know I'm a bit late for some, but I wasn't to be trusted with technology at 2am, and now I am conscious again at 9, I would like to welcome one and all to the first new day of a new year, in what I suppose I must learn to call a new century. I would like to think it is also the dawn of a new age of humanity, in all ways. I think I must be one of the few who hasn't seen anything of what went on at the Dome! I daresay highlights will be shown. Gotta go now and have my first caffeine. I am cutting down and I mean to savour every sip! Only allowing myself 3 cups a day. I am making sure they are bigguns! mouldy
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01 Jan 00 - 05:01 AM (#156492) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Alan of Australia G'day, The London fireworks were nearly as good as the Sydney ones. Not surprising I suppose - they were done by an Aussie.
Cheers, |
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01 Jan 00 - 06:27 AM (#156498) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: McGrath of Harlow But did anyone notice? - shots from all over the world, and pretty well every where there was something reflecting the traditional music of the place. The exception being England, where the locals are embarrassed by it.
Though I don't suppose massed Morris dancers would have gone down as well as nekkid samba! |
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01 Jan 00 - 07:32 AM (#156506) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: AllisonA(Animaterra) What about nekkid Morris dancers? THAT would have been a sight to see! Allison-who-watched-American-public-television-which-didn't-show-ANY-of-the-UK-celebrations!!:-( |
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01 Jan 00 - 08:51 AM (#156524) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Alan Francis I spent ?Millennium Eve? at my Sailing Club, with 50 other dinghy sailing cronies, pigging out on imported Fruits de Mer and being entertained by four teenagers from the East Herts Youth Jazz Orchestra who played so well that I wished I had been as good a musician at their age. Perhaps I was, and the talent has subsequently dissipated. Watch out for a lad called Eddie Gray - one day he'll give Jools Holland a run for his money! The point of this is that the Club is on the Greenwich Meridian, so we lit one of a chain of beacons that marked the line. Ours consisted of several superannuated boats - a sort of southern Up Helly Aa (Down Helly Aa?). Yes, we had fireworks; ours, plus the glow of London's from the south, plus about fifty other local and distant displays, all reflected in the lake. Fireworks work best over water. Is Sydney Harbour Bridge still standing - they seemed to use an entire Somme of pyrotechnics! Anyway, the atmosphere was magic - as it seemed to be almost everywhere, so to hell with pedantic "it is" "oh no it's not" millennial considerations. Let's do it again next year and cover our options - come to that, why not every year? Ageing Hippy he say "Love and Peace to All, Mudcats, Musos, in fact, everyone" Perhaps not naked Morris dancers, though. |
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01 Jan 00 - 08:53 AM (#156526) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: alison there were Morris dancers ... but they were in Spain!!! They showed "Boys of the Lough" here.. just a snippet of them playing in a pub... followed by the comment "Ally Bain, she's one of the finest folk performers in Scotland." slainte alison |
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01 Jan 00 - 12:07 PM (#156589) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Little Dorritt well i'm glad its all over really, another New Year where I have failed to make the Honour's List. really enjoyed Jools hollands Hootannay with lonnie donegan, travis and van morrison- best thing on telly all weekend the man should be given a knighthood. i think the queens inability to cross her arms during auld lang syne is the product of centuries of in breeding and she is physically unable to extend her arm sockets- either that or she was worried the bloke behind her was a pickpocket. Cherie Blair was giving it some welly though wasn't she, even if she didn't synchronise the words and the music or was that the Wembly effect. The best coverage I felt was from Stonehaven in Scotland where these masive kilted chaps were swirling huge bals of fire around in a procession - it was stunning. |
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01 Jan 00 - 01:07 PM (#156606) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: lajka Thanks! Have a great year! From Eva in Sweden. |
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02 Jan 00 - 02:35 AM (#156903) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Liz the Squeak OOOOOh, kilts, balls of fire, boy, was I watching the wrong channel!!! And didn't HM Q have a face like a smacked bum!!! Mind you, if I had to hold hands with Tony Bleurgh and Prince Philip, I think I'd probably look like that too..... Crossing arms over your chest is rather difficult if you are genetically disposed to short arms and big chests. You end up throttling yourself..... LTS, after her 2nd party in 24 hours, is going to have a quiet day at church..... very quiet, I still have no voice! |
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02 Jan 00 - 02:56 AM (#156912) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: roopoo D'you know, Liz, my mate in Wiltshire said virtually the same as you about HMQ. She did also notice however that the Princess Royal managed to crack a smile. I'm off to church too very shortly. I spent most of yesterday semi-comatose in an armchair. Technically I have recovered. It's my daughter's 19th birthday today and we are very foolishly leaving the house to her and her student friends while Ian and I go off overnight to his company bash this afternoon. How will I relax in the sauna at the country club knowing that lot are on the loose? Do I care? mouldy |
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02 Jan 00 - 03:35 AM (#156914) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Brendy As I write, there is a discussion on BBC 5 Live about the famous 'River of Fire' Anybody who spotted it is invited to inform the BBC at bbc.co.uk In breeding....that's a good'un! B. |
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02 Jan 00 - 06:18 AM (#156926) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Micca Hi Guys, Just when i thought the celebration was over the wheels came off. Our house guests, from the New years party at another friends, suggested we pop into the pub on their way to the station on their way home. 4 hours later, New Years Eve II was well under way, other friends turned up and we ate and went to the pub and came back to my house to drink copious quantities of Single Malt ( Tobermory, Lagavulin, Bowmore, Glenmorangie) and got to bed at about 3.30am Which accounts for the state in which we sent the Shark (her SO) home to Liz the Squeak. Liz didn't attend due to Flu, |
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02 Jan 00 - 07:38 AM (#156930) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Eric the Viking Happy new year to everyone at mudcat. Hope this year sees the fulfilment of all your hopes and ambitions. Best wishes for another year of musical co-operation where the boundries of the sea or land make no difference to people being people. harmony and peace. Eric ps My wife gave me a mandolin for Christmas, all I have do do is learn to play it. Any help would be appreciated to; eric@lackford20.freeserve.co.uk Thanks |
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02 Jan 00 - 09:44 AM (#156959) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: selby May we all have a Happy and Peacful New Year Keith |
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02 Jan 00 - 11:18 AM (#156991) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: InOBU Happy New Year Boys and Girls: Lovely fire works, Best wishes Larry and Genie Otway |
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02 Jan 00 - 05:51 PM (#157117) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Graham & Sam Pirt Happy new(ish)year! We've just got up after recovering from a great celebration - No fireworks, no TV, no millennium dome just lots and lots of great music with lots of people. It was great - we'll do it again - next millennium! |
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03 Jan 00 - 04:13 AM (#157336) Subject: RE: Happy 2000 from UK From: Liz the Squeak No, Micca, LTS didn't attend because she was cooking 5 gallons of Millennium Minestrone soup for party No.2, which got underway at about 1.30pm, after the midday church service..... And was very annoyed because the Shark was supposed to bring the salt with him, and was late, so people had to have soup with no salt and no butter either! Mind you, out of 50+ people, only 3 asked for salt, so maybe it wasn't that bad..... I still had the flu though, but 85% of a Black Forest Gateau has made me feel a lot better..... LTS |