New Year's/Hogmany

[Hamish]

I'll be spending the evening on my own and, for the first time I can remember, without alcohol! An old friend was to have come to stay for a few days, but I've had to cancel the visit. The attack of sciatica, now in it's second week, is more severe than I was told it would be and I simply cannot face having anyone staying here at the moment.

Taking the medication means 'no alcohol' !!

In spite of all that, I'd like to wish all and every one of my kilted brethren the Happiest and Healthiest of New Years ever. Let's make 2006 a good one.

[Sherry]

For Hogmanay (or as some may prefer, "Hug many" ), we will be going to a private home for a ceilidh with other folks who frequent the Texas Scottish Festival & who have become wonderful friends to us over the last two & a half years.

Daz: But, but, but...you can be tall & dark, but you can't be a stranger to your Gran! Say it isn't so!

Shay: So sorry about your plans. Wish you could come down here.

Hamish: Lord knows we all feel for you. If I could, I'd send you to the chiropractor & then on to a massage therapist or an accupuncturist. Hopefully, you won't ever have another Christmas & New Year's like these.

[Bob C]

Daz: But, but, but...you can be tall & dark, but you can't be a stranger to your Gran! Say it isn't so!

That depends on Gran's memory, now doesn't it? :-D

Years ago, we got my great-grandmother out of the nursing home for xmas. She had been losing her mental faculties for quite a while at that point.

When it came time to take her back to the home, she looked at three generations of her own family and said, "I don't know who the hell any of you people are, but you're the nicest people I ever met!"

[Sherry]

I first foot my gran every year- im in demand every year becasues of my black hair and standing 6.3 and i some times arrive with the pipes, last year was very special for my gran as she had beaten cancer! I remember visiting her in hospital and she said "you wont be letting in the new year this time" and I did and will do again tomorrow, shes 84 beaten cancer and used to make parachutes during the war so i think many airman were saved by this amazing old lady

Amazing, Daz! It must have been very special for you to get to repeat your first footing for her. You must have had a very big grin on your face. :mrgreen:

Bob, what a hoot! I'm glad your g-g was left with a good impression of all of you. :-D