What’s on your mind?

[Scepticalscribe]

I love the New Years concert from Vienna. I wonder what the production will be like this year?

Every year, as long as he lived, I used to watch it with my father - who loved it, and who had introduced me to it, both the concert and the music, when I was a child (when, with both parents, I had watched an ITV series about the Strauss Family, and had become enthralled by their story).

In latter years, my father welcomed the fact that the concert had broadened to include other composers of the era, and not simply the Strauss brothers (and their father).

Brexit is also on my mind, but that is a somewhat different topic.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Happy new year!!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Work, plans for the day and breakfast all on my mind. Been hungry for ages. But Mrs AFB and I slept in today.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Work, plans for the day and breakfast all on my mind. Been hungry for ages. But Mrs AFB and I slept in today.

Have a great day.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Have a great day.

And you. Back from a pre lunch walk. Mrs AFB came with for the first time in more than a week. Three pairs of gloves, hand warmers and her hands were still hurting from the cold. I on the other hand took my gloves off as I was too warm.
Most of the snow has gone now.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

And you. Back from a pre lunch walk. Mrs AFB came with for the first time in more than a week. Three pairs of gloves, hand warmers and her hands were still hurting from the cold. I on the other hand took my gloves off as I was too warm.
Most of the snow has gone now.

A walk was probably good for a change and good for your circulation, as well.

Other Brother has been on the phone, and we agreed that even without Covid, we would have been tucked up at home (possibly with a glass of something), nice and warm and cosy and quiet - the days of communal celebration are long gone - as the New Year was rung in.

 

[Apple fanboy]

A walk was probably good for a change and good for your circulation, as well.

Other Brother has been on the phone, and we agreed that even without Covid, we would have been tucked up at home (possibly with a glass of something), nice and warm and cosy and quiet - the days of communal celebration are long gone - as the New Year was rung in.

I’ve not been to a new year’s party in a quarter of a century I’d imagine. It’s not really a big event. We don’t do anything to mark it really.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I’ve not been to a new year’s party in a quarter of a century I’d imagine. It’s not really a big event. We don’t do anything to mark it really.

An over-rated event, to my mind.

However, I did like my father's sweet tradition, where - once the New Year struck - he would check out where everybody was in the house (very often, we had each repaired to different rooms), and would then proceed to the rooms where we each were, where he would wish everyone - individually - a happy new year with a hug, and then return to his wine or whisky, and offer a toast, if you followed him.

 

[Apple fanboy]

An over-rated event, to my mind.

However, I did like my father's sweet tradition, where - once the New Year struck - he would check out where everybody was in the house (very often, we had repaired to different rooms), and would then proceed to the rooms where we each were, where he would wish everyone - individually - a happy new year with a hug, and then return to his wine or whisky, and offer a toast, if you followed him.

Sounds like happy memories. I’ll be honest I don’t really recall New Years when I was living with my parents. But then that was when I was a teenager so quite some time ago.

 

[jeyf]

we cooked a big meal at home.
food hangover this morning
4breakfest i had protein powder and water

 

[Apple fanboy]

One of the things I like most about not celebrating at this time of year. I'm not starting the year with holiday alb's! I lost weight last week. Expect I'll stay the same or go down for this Sunday's weigh in as well!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Sounds like happy memories. I’ll be honest I don’t really recall New Years when I was living with my parents. But then that was when I was a teenager so quite some time ago.

Yes, he liked the tradition of celebrating the festivals, and acknowledging the rituals of the year; mind you, he was careful and cautious re health matters - and he would have been utterly meticulous in observing lock-downs, or health restrictions.

 

[JetBlack7]

Am I doing something with my life? Or am I wasting it away? Would it be different If I was not present? (No suicide thinking, don't worry).

 

[AVBeatMan]

“The Year of Our Lorde 1665 hath been such a terrible one for ye plague. I cannot wait for 1666, for which I have especial excitement to trye the newe bakery that hath opened on Pudding Lane.’

Samuel Pepys, Diary Entry, 31 December 1665.

A reminder that we can’t take for granted that 2021 will be better! But let’s hope so...Happy New Year everyone.

 

[Clix Pix]

It has been many years since I, too, have been to a New Year's Eve party. Back in my younger days they were fun at times, but I really don't miss them now. One particularly memorable party that I recall, though, was a New Year's Day party thrown by friends who lived just on the next street over, which was convenient -- no need to drive, we always just walked there. The year that we had a bunch of snow on New Year's Day they still had the party, but many of their usual guests couldn't get there, the snow was still coming down and getting deeper and deeper. Those of us who were in the neighborhood and who could walk mushed over in our heavy coats and our boots and all had a lovely time.

The NYE parties that were held which involved driving home afterward in the wee hours of the morn always meant that one of us, either my husband or myself, would refrain from indulging in any alcoholic beverages in order to get us both home safely, especially if the party were at a distance with a fair amount of the driving being on the high-speed Beltway. A sip or two of champagne just to toast the new year in was the limit for the "designated driver."

Last night's welcoming-in of the New Year was similar to most of those in more recent years, a quiet evening at home, a glass of Stella to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021, and turning on the television at about 11:45 PM in order to catch the final moments of 2020 and watch the sparkly ball descend in Times Square. That in itself was different to see, as there were few celebrants on the street -- only invited guests, many of whom were off-duty first responders and such. The ball dropped down, 2020 went away and 2021 was here amidst cheers and confetti....

 

[djlythium]

“The Year of Our Lorde 1665 hath been such a terrible one for ye plague. I cannot wait for 1666, for which I have especial excitement to trye the newe bakery that hath opened on Pudding Lane.’

Samuel Pepys, Diary Entry, 31 December 1665.

A reminder that we can’t take for granted that 2021 will be better! But let’s hope so...Happy New Year everyone.

Is this real?

 

[AVBeatMan]

Is this real?

I’ve tried to find the entry but can’t find it? I saw it from Prof. Frank McDonough who retweeted it here;

 

[Scepticalscribe]

“The Year of Our Lorde 1665 hath been such a terrible one for ye plague. I cannot wait for 1666, for which I have especial excitement to trye the newe bakery that hath opened on Pudding Lane.’

Samuel Pepys, Diary Entry, 31 December 1665.

A reminder that we can’t take for granted that 2021 will be better! But let’s hope so...Happy New Year everyone.

Brilliant.

Is this real?

No, it's not, but it is very funny.

 

[chown33]

I don't see it in the Project Gutenberg text:

The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

www.gutenberg.org

There are only a couple mentions of "Pudding" near "lane", a few mentions of "baker" (or the longer "bakery"), and the 31 Dec 1665 entry has neither "Pudding" nor "bakery".

The baker in Pudding-lane first appears on 2 Sep 1666, in reference to a fire. Because just when you think things can't get any worse...

 

[yaxomoxay]

Am I doing something with my life? Or am I wasting it away? Would it be different If I was not present? (No suicide thinking, don't worry).

Well, it’s up to you.

 

[MacBH928]

I hear people talking about feeling nostalgic about things from 2005 and 2010. Those things seem recent for me. Am I getting old?

 

[Jessica Lares]

More like you're just reading stuff written by 30-somethings.

 

[Apple fanboy]

2005 happier times. When life seemed a lot less pointless.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I hear people talking about feeling nostalgic about things from 2005 and 2010. Those things seem recent for me. Am I getting old?

Yes, you are. . Join the get old club now, and receive a free "get off my lawn, you kids" bumper sticker.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I have been reflecting all day on the year of the pandemic, my aging parents with health problems, the general mindset of many young people today, and whether or not I should travel to the store for some Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, not to mention looking for trouble on MR.