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57.5 Days of Xmas Dec 2024 1:46pm, 31 Dec 2024 26,147 posts	0 57.5 Days of Xmas Eynsham Red wrote:That it’s New Year’s Eve today. (Yes I know that today’s date is December 31st but I didn’t twig that it’s NYE 🤦‍♂️) You were waiting for the 32nd?
jabberknitmas Dec 2024 2:01pm, 31 Dec 2024 4,586 posts	0 jabberknitmas (Well, I confidently thought there was a November 31st this year, so why not December 32nd as well?)
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear Dec 2024 4:24pm, 31 Dec 2024 11,672 posts	0 Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear 57.5 Days of Xmas wrote:Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear wrote:That it’s New Year’s Eve today. (Yes I know that today’s date is December 31st but I didn’t twig that it’s NYE 🤦‍♂️)You were waiting for the 32nd? Not really, but it hadn’t registered that it was New Year’s Eve as an event, in the same way that December 25th is always Christmas Day. No doubt I will celebrate in the normal way of going to bed at about 10:30 and then being woken at midnight by the noise of the fireworks 💥 😂
Merry Fizzmas :-) Dec 2024 5:49pm, 31 Dec 2024 9,322 posts	0 Merry Fizzmas :-) [That’s how we celebrate here too]
Rosehip Dec 2024 6:25pm, 31 Dec 2024 34,076 posts	0 Rosehip it's not New Year's Eve - it's Old Year's Day, or it was in the lincs/cambs border I came from
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Dec 2024 6:44pm, 31 Dec 2024 48,334 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Definitely Oldyersday in Norfolk @Rosehip
Rosehip Dec 2024 7:07pm, 31 Dec 2024 34,079 posts	0 Rosehip Norfolk wasn't so far from us @Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
A Rae in a manger Dec 2024 7:30pm, 31 Dec 2024 12,390 posts	0 A Rae in a manger Ever pragmatic, the Dutch celebrate 'oude en nieuwe' 😂
Ocelot Spleens 1 Jan 12:11am, 1 Jan 2025 40,191 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens That the music to the New Year fireworks on telly would be fucking awful.
57.5 Days of Xmas 1 Jan 9:49am, 1 Jan 2025 26,159 posts	0 57.5 Days of Xmas Rosehip wrote:it's not New Year's Eve - it's Old Year's Day, or it was in the lincs/cambs border I came from Auld Year's Night in Fife and East Lothian as I learned yesterday.