Anyone got any plans? A Party perhaps in a different region of the country maybe? The last few years I've not even bothered staying up for the bells, it's just not what it used to be. Used to love going round everyone's houses but that hasn't happened for donkeys years, people too wary of one another alas.
Ah, how culturally diverse to continue with a couple of celebrations left over from invaders. Haggis is something the Romans brought to Scotland. Hogmanay is French in origin.
We should have a thread dedicated to posters favourite words that aren't used often enough in everyday language.
Very true, and wearing the kilt that was brought over by Irish invaders, and in the tartan the Victorian English invented.
The word, maybe, but it's literally just New Year's Eve... a similar word was once used as far south as Yorkshire to describe that day's celebrations, and I can assure you that I am no Frenchman