Do many people do anything for New Year these days?
When I was younger I was always out on hogmanay, be that to a party or just in the pub, and then NYD itself was at my great aunts. As that generation has passed on no one has really taken on that role in the family among the younger generations (and a lot of cousins etc don't live locally now anyway). Even going back a couple of decades though us (then) youngsters would be told it 'isn't like the new years we used to have' and we would be regaled with tales of first footing, parties that lasted days and all ran into one, steak pies that would have fed 5000 etc etc. My grandad can recall working on Christmas Day as it wasn't the focus of the celebrations in Scotland but never New Year.
Is it just the case that Christmas has totally usurped New Year now? I can't remember the last time we did anything notable at NY. I tend to do the racing at Musselburgh and that's about it. We have no plans for Hogmanay and I doubt I'll even stay up until midnight. NYD we have my parents coming down and I'm doing soup and stovies but I don't foresee it being a raucous one. Is anyone keeping the party going? Or is it a thing of the past?
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30-12-2024 12:45 PM #1
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