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Sounds like a great plan for your New Year, Bobbie!
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Do you have any New Year's Day traditions?
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Do you have any traditions in Australia, Dan?
get drunkOriginally Posted by dawnofsierra
Do you have any traditions in Australia, Dan?
seriously I know of no traditions - there probably are some but I personally dont know any
edit - oh sorry getting drunk is NYE tradition - not NYD - hehe - NYD tradition - recover?
Well, I think the drinking this is universal on NYE, so party hearty girls, just don't drink and drive!
As far as NYD traditions, the only ones I grew up with was at midnight, Dad would go out and shoot a gun up into the sky.......now that I"m an adult, I think, "how stupid was that!" We also used to eat sardines at midnight, (yuck) and then on NYD, we'd have for dinner pork and sauerkraut............now that I'm thinking about it, other than the pork, my family was very strange!!
As far as NYD traditions, the only ones I grew up with was at midnight, Dad would go out and shoot a gun up into the sky.......now that I"m an adult, I think, "how stupid was that!" We also used to eat sardines at midnight, (yuck) and then on NYD, we'd have for dinner pork and sauerkraut............now that I'm thinking about it, other than the pork, my family was very strange!!
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Those are really interesting, Susie!
Guess the gun was sort of your Dad's version of fireworks, maybe? and the pork coorelates with one of the ones around here! Sardines? Now that's a new one!
They say eating lentils is supposed to be good luck, but I may have to try something else this year
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Well, that's an idea, Lauren, start of the brand new year with a change!
Yeah.. I think that I may just do that
The lentils just haven't been doing the job..
Maybe I will try Chocolate
Maybe I will try Chocolate
my grandmother's bday is jan 1st, so every new years eve we hang out with her but then go our own ways at about 10 or so. This year she will be 80!! So we are throwing her a bigger party than usual..
kittylover.. the gun thing, a ton of people around here do it. In fact I was planning to for the first time this year but I'm scared I will shoot my eye out hehe.
kittylover.. the gun thing, a ton of people around here do it. In fact I was planning to for the first time this year but I'm scared I will shoot my eye out hehe.
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Happy 80th Birthday to your Grandmother!
Be careful with that gun, now!
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Now, that sounds like an idea!Originally Posted by AniSkyofTrent
Yeah.. I think that I may just do thatThe lentils just haven't been doing the job..
Maybe I will try Chocolate
Yea Brits & Aussies the same... 'part from that awful mushy pea business.
No such New Years Day traditions that I know of - the last five years have been spent at a friends house, or away camping with my mates. But this year Nana & I are going on a picnic.
No such New Years Day traditions that I know of - the last five years have been spent at a friends house, or away camping with my mates. But this year Nana & I are going on a picnic.
Sad to say no...this wasn't a time of the year when I spent much time with my dad or his side of the family, and they *do* have New Year's eve traditions (certain seafood dishes) but I don't know what they are for sure.
Since I married, dh just doens't make much to-do over New Years...I want to start some new traditions, but after 9 years, one could say I'm being a bit slow about it
Maybe I'll get off my franny and look up Swedish and Sicilian traditions, pick the ones we like and incorporate them
into our holiday.
Since I married, dh just doens't make much to-do over New Years...I want to start some new traditions, but after 9 years, one could say I'm being a bit slow about it
Yes, pickled herring, I like mine in sour cream sauce...Franz and Maddie will get some too at midnight! I believe pickled herring is a very Swedish and Eastern European tradition!
WOW! The only thing I do on New Years is watch the ball drop. I have every year since I can remember. My mom said I've been watching it since I was a baby! so 36 years later I'm going to watch it again tonight!
I do the pre-New Year's cleaning bit - got all the windows, doors and curtains washed, the freezer defrosted, etc.. My family has always been into major housecleaning between Christmas and New Year's, I guess in part because there never seems to be enough time for it right before Christmas. We almost always had pork or ham for dinner on New Year's Day (and the Germans give little pink pigs, often made of marzipan, to each other for luck). This year I'm breaking with the tradition and making lasagna.
I miss one New Year's Day tradition from Philly: the Mummers' Parade! For those of you not familiar with it, the mummers are marching string bands dressed in fanciful costumes with lots of feathers, and the parade is also a big competition between the bands. It goes on for hours and hours, and is also televised.
I miss one New Year's Day tradition from Philly: the Mummers' Parade! For those of you not familiar with it, the mummers are marching string bands dressed in fanciful costumes with lots of feathers, and the parade is also a big competition between the bands. It goes on for hours and hours, and is also televised.
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There you go!, now you speak Scottish!
She sounded like just one of them!!
Now i can understand my mother perfictly buttt.... when i speak to my relos on the phone i have no idea what they are saying
One thing my boyfriend has inherited from my mother is "aye" lol and he always cracks up when she says Fish... She says it like "feschsssssssss"
Scottish is sure a funny language, But when they speak german you cant tell that they have a different accent at all!!
unlike me with my little aussie accent haha
Ohh tricia!
Now i know why they sell those little pig things at the bakeries! I thought they were there for some cute ornament thing or something, just like those gingerbread stuff when theres the Dippemess.
My boyfriends tradition is to drink on NYE but we are going to watch the fireworks from our balcony. No champagne for us this year
as my mother came home last night
Now i know why they sell those little pig things at the bakeries! I thought they were there for some cute ornament thing or something, just like those gingerbread stuff when theres the Dippemess.
My boyfriends tradition is to drink on NYE but we are going to watch the fireworks from our balcony. No champagne for us this year
as my mother came home last night
We have always gone to Benihana's for dinner on the 1st...it's an awesome Japanese restaurant!
