New Year's Eve Traditions

[degsy]

Happy New Year to every one everywnere

 

[Ducans elbow]

I could be ready for bed soon but we promise our daughter we will stay up together until midnight so I still have a long night to go lol

Happy New Year @Ducans elbow

we do the British NY here at 5pm so not often I see the Canadian NY, all the beat to you and the family
I did put my yellow knickers on

 

[summerisle]

New Year's Eve + the sound of police sirens go together like a horse and carriage.

 

[cooperman]

Loved reading this, getting an insight into other folk cultures.
Here when I were a kid we'd throw a party. My dad would go out the back door just before midnight and on the stroke of midnight he'd ring the bell and be welcomed in bearing wood and coal to bring warmth for the new year.

40 years later I do the same but get odd looks from modern people! Sadly we don't celebrate our folk culture much in the uk.

Remember my grandad telling me about something like this... Basically everyone would go to a neighbour's with coal for the fire on nye

 

[degsy]

Loved reading this, getting an insight into other folk cultures.
Here when I were a kid we'd throw a party. My dad would go out the back door just before midnight and on the stroke of midnight he'd ring the bell and be welcomed in bearing wood and coal to bring warmth for the new year.

40 years later I do the same but get odd looks from modern people! Sadly we don't celebrate our folk culture much in the uk.

In the late 50s, the Mar and Arl fella were (probably) up at the Heath Hotel. Just before 12 my Gran would send me...as the eldest, out the back door with the lump of coal...and maybe some thing else but what ever it was...(if it was anything, was likely to be a bottle of Guinness) is lost in the mists of time
I'd have to wait until 12 and all the boats started with the ships hooters on the river, I'd have to run round to the front door, knock on the door to let the New Year in.
Then all the neighbours...mostly everybody, young kids and all would gather around the lamp post opp Hardinge Rd toast each other...somebody would always give you a swig of whatever they were drinking...gerrit down yer its New Year.
Sing Auld Lang Syne...a bit more yakking
And so to bed

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

The very best of wishes to you all for 2021.