What are you doing for the bells?

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Gavin Scott
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According to BBC Scotland's website, "all eyes will be on the castle at the stroke of midnight"

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So where will you be when the fireworks launch?

I've got a couple of party invites, a pal to see and a hankering to go to a fun gay pub, but as yet I'm undecided.
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My housemates were trying to drag me to the Street Party, but it's the kind of thing that after witnessing once, I really....really....don't need to do that again. Ever. I'm one of those dreary buggers who ramble on about the whole New Year thing being a bit arbitrary, so if I'm lucky I'll be asleep with my Po hot water bottle by 11. BECAUSE I'M AWESOME.
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I always do this: I wound up at small-town home, in a situation where it's actually less miserable to stay in than it is to go out. I shall be staying in and watching the neckless Jools and his prerecorded fake-e-nanny.

One of these years I'll organise something AMAZING.
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lukey wrote:My housemates were trying to drag me to the Street Party, but it's the kind of thing that after witnessing once, I really....really....don't need to do that again. Ever. I'm one of those dreary buggers who ramble on about the whole New Year thing being a bit arbitrary, so if I'm lucky I'll be asleep with my Po hot water bottle by 11. BECAUSE I'M AWESOME.
I have a few mates who queued for HOURS yesterday in the freezing cold to collect the street party tickets they bought in advance. I don't fancy the street party, although the music lineup is probably ok. Its too cold and packed to be enjoyable.

Shame you're not in the city though. Could have said hello.

I hate the English programming. It shouldn't be a "Hootenanny", its "hogmanay" for god's sake.
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I blame Holland - the country and the man.
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Sput wrote:I blame Holland - the country and the man.
Holland (the place) is blameless. I was born in Oostvoorne you know.
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So, how many other people here can say they were born in a place spelt with four Os?
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Nick Harvey wrote:So, how many other people here can say they were born in a place spelt with four Os?
And "Ooooh, Manchester" doesn't count.
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I'll be in the usual place tonight. Welcoming in the New Year with Nick Knowles. Er, great.

(I always offer to work New Year's Eve because I hate it. It depresses me.)
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Less than Nick Knowles?
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marksi wrote:(I always offer to work New Year's Eve because I hate it. It depresses me.)
ah but do you get double pay?
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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