Christmas Food Booklet

[tiggerblue10]

An Aldi one was posted through my door today and there's lots of party food in it. I guess they were hopeful of a covid free Xmas and NYE when going to print but it's looking less likely there will be normal celebrations to welcome the new year in this year.

What do you normally do on NYE? Do you go out and celebrate at midnight or is it just a regular evening? Will you be getting in some party food to have with your household?

We just stay at home and I send WhatsApp messages at midnight to family/friends.

[pastafreak]

I'm the same as you Tiggs. It's never a big deal, and I enjoy the company of Jools Holland. Besides, the city centre here is the last place I'd want to be.

[Cloverjo]

Not sure what’s going to happen. We have my son and his Lithuanian wife with us from Christmas to NYE (all being well).

We normally have a couple of glasses of champagne on NYE and go to bed when we’re tired, but in Lithuania NYE is more important than Christmas celebrations so we’ve got to do another big meal.

[burlyshirley]

Haven't been out on NYE for years, not my favourite time of year. Just get something nice in for tea and watch TV with my little dog on sofa next to me. Always do a small buffet on New Year's Day though for a couple of friends, we take it in turn. I did it last year, so my turn to be waited on next year !

[Mamyalynne]

I have the Tesco Christmas food booklet here - some of the images are worth framing, the seafood 4 tier slate platter for £50 is one, yum.

TV and a few glasses of something nice then wrap up and head to my balcony to view the skyward displays is my usual NYE since being alone.

We'll see what this one brings.

[bookbinder]

Mrs. bb and I don't do anything special on New Year's Eve. We used to visit relatives, many years ago, and have a bit of a knees-up, but it's nothing special now. The world looks just the same at 00:05 as it did at 23:55. We might have a look at the fireworks, but that's it.

[Bobbisox1]

We've not been out for years now, the millennium spoilt it when they started charging you to get in your local , we send for a Chinese meal, open a bottle of good wine and watch tv or listen to music, I'm always in bed before 12 ( no change there then :)
I've been there and done the countdown thing but now I'm not interested , give me Christmas Eve anytime

[woofgang]

I dose the dog and wait for the fireworks to stop

[Buenchico]

In a 'normal' year, for me to meet up with my drinking friends (in a town about 10 miles from here, where they live) on New Year's Eve would mean that I'd have to pay about £60 to get a (double-fare) taxi back home afterwards. I've never considered it worth that much just to have a few drinks with my mates in a packed and noisy pub, so I've been on my own on New Year's Eve for many years now. Therefore this New Year isn't really going to be that much different for me.

However, in past years, the occasion has always been brightened up for me by watching Jools Holland's Hootenanny on the telly. It looks like I won't even have that to look forward to this year :(

[Bobbisox1]

A man after Mr Bs heart then Chris

[retrocop]

We do nothing much on NYE.My side of our family celebrated Christmas in a big way and left Mahogany to the Scots to celebrate. We usually watch a film and Jools Holland but even his show is same old now.May have a drink and see the year in but quite frankly I find another year gone as another year older. Both my in-laws were Scottish but even my wife can't be bothered with Hogmonay. No guests visit us. No party food but a family roast dinner on NY day. Usually goose.

[The Builder]

Bobbi................ charging to get into the local??????

I thought the NE had been civilised hundreds of years ago ;o)))))))

Anyway, I'm with Pasta and Mamya on NYE.
Well, not literally... but that would be a hell of a party.
I go around telling everyone that I shall be somewhere else, then sneak off home for Hootenanny and youtube.
No chance of an early night though. I live too near the village church bells ;o(

[teacake44]

Pubs and bars and so on got very greedy by charging anything up to £15 just to enter through the doors on new years eve, in my view they shot themselves in the foot big time. They made the excuse it was to keep people safe regarding over crowding, ye ye, like hell, cram as many in as you can at £15 a knock. Not been out since.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes, truth The Builder, under the pretence of first there etc, they even put doorman on , this was because previous some would turn out at say 10 pm and only have a couple of drinks whereas the locals would be there at 7 with a buffet on each table .....mmmm, does that make us uncivilised? :(

[The Builder]

Actually, that makes a lot of sense Bobbi.

With village pubs, there's the long-standing joke about Festive season pub-goers. You don't see them for 51 weeks of the year. They're no great trade for the publicans, and they bung the place up ;o)

[retrocop]

When I used to visit my local they would announce no potential customers after 10p.m..They didn't charge to enter the pub before 10p.m. but the door managers stopped others from entering. They shot themselves in the foot the last time they did this. All the younger drinkers got tanked up on cheaper booze and then there was a mass exodus with cabs lining up outside to take them to the clubs in our local town and Croydon. The local I attended was then left virtually empty until 0100hrs when they shut.

[Bobbisox1]

They were known as the 'once a year drinkers' here TB

[BAKERS DOZEN]

We usually stay in and watch Jules Holland while Mr BD polishes off a bottle of champagne and I message friends and family. Read last year that is recorded in October/November which I can understand as surely all the stars want to be with their families on NYE. Must be fingers crossed that all the acts are alive and well on 31st or there'll be some last minute editing to do.

[retrocop]

I watched Jools one year and there was a couple of posers mincing around looking daft and dressed in sherlock Holmes attire complete with deerstalkers. Does anyone know if they are ordinary joes off the street or are they celebrity guests who attend his Hootenanny in the studio?

[Bobbisox1]

He does nowt for me but mr B enjoys him, I think he's weird haha

[retrocop]

I don't bother with his show any more. I don't like some of his music acts he gets over from the States. Looked like the Clampits had invaded last year. Band of rednecks.Some of his non performing studio guests seem weird as well. Still if there was a choice I would sooner watch Jools than that cocky little Scotsman, Logan, who used to invade our screens. Thank god he only appeared on Telly once a year because in those days we only had one channel. :-(