Hope you have your best running shoes on to make a quick getaway. Happy New Year :)

so I"m looking up Hogmanay on the interwebs….I see now how all this punching and drinking and shouting came about...

"Customs vary throughout Scotland, and usually include gift-giving and visiting the homes of friends and neighbours, with special attention given to the first-foot, the first guest of the new year..."
Yes, I can see how this could get out of hand with EVERYONE wanting to be the first!

And the there's this old custom..."the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt (less common today), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun (a rich fruit cake)"

Aha!  this is where the whiskey comes in!

and I"m reading about fireballs being swung around in Aberdeenshire..

THen they get a bit less rambunctious here..."In the east coast fishing communities and Dundee, first-footers once carried a decorated herring."  hehe


ooh boy...then there's this."...magic water....After the sprinkling of the water in every room, on the beds and all the inhabitants, the house is sealed up tight and branches of juniper are set on fire and carried throughout the house and byre. The juniper smoke is allowed to thoroughly fumigate the buildings until it causes sneezing and coughing among the inhabitants. Then all the doors and windows are flung open to let in the cold, fresh air of the new year. The woman of the house then administers 'a restorative' from the whisky bottle, and the household sits down to its New Year breakfast"

I can see how people just glossed over the first part and decided to just go straight away to the whiskey!

Auld Lang Syne my friend!!  Stay safe out there ;0)  and have fun punching many a random victim sunovabitches!!!

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It's a hard life but how did you wangle that free pass.Happy New Year.

Happy New Year to you, to the good lady and to your children, dear @meesterboom ! At the moment, I'd like to have a bit of Lagavulin (one of my favorites) in front of me to celebrate the new year, but we have just a good wine, so: cheers!!!!

Happy New Year

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Just the thought of going out and celebrating with punches to the face.......made me giggle.  Not that I'd want to participate...."ouch !!"

Happy New Year !!

Happy New Year to you and your family

So not inducting your children into this age old tradition then? XD

<sub>I have no idea even I'm glad someone else looked it up so all I had to do was glance through the comments XD</sub>

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Happiest of New Year's to you, Mr. B. Though yours sound a WHOLE lot more exciting than mine.  Though again,  getting schnockered, then punched in the kisser by every stranger I meet sounds like a real hum-dinger of a way to bring in the New 365.  You're a tougher man than I. (Then again, so is my sister).   Hope you have a grand night, and the New Year follows suite like a nasty hangover after 27 Hennessy's.     

PS.  Always pick the leather, makes you look much cooler than the puffy, Michelin Man coat.

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# HOGMANAY!!

I hoped you decked one good right in the chin, BROwler! I remember when you first educated me about this and I continue to be fascinated with this ritual of kings! One day I will get to experience this, and we shall meet each other's fists with our faces in sync. The world shall tremble and the new year would be delayed a second or two because it would flinch at our might!

Howdy sir meesterboom! what in the world is this? A Hogmanay? I gather from your comments that it's a "ritual of kings?"
Is this something that only is done in Scotland?