31 December, 2007 
I know I’m expected to write something about the rollover from one year to the next, but there’s a problem.
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, so I can’t write about mine and I certainly don’t want to write about other people’s.
I don’t do a year in review. I spent too many years churning out year-in-review columns and specials for newspapers, magazines, radio and the web to do my own.
Besides, they’re a serious bore. If you thought an event was worth remembering, then you’ll remember it without my asinine prompting.
I don’t do the year ahead either. As my little sister has found out, forward planning and practical farming tend not to coincide for an instant longer than it takes for the ink to dry on the job list.
And I don’t do lists, either.
I’m not going to list my favourite bloggers of the year, my favourite websites of the year, my most read posts of the year, my least read posts of the year, or even my favourite pigs of the year.
I suppose I’m expected to thank everyone who’s helped or supported us over the past year, but that would be a list, I’ve already thanked them and, despite mutterings from the middle-class peanut gallery, I’m not into public displays of grovelling thanks anyway.
So what does that leave for me to say?
Happy New Year.
There.
Done.
Dusted.
Over with.
See you tomorrow.
Hooray ! Its not just me who doesn’t do New Year – why do people value it so highly ? Why not celebrate at the end of every month ? It just doen’t do it for me its Monday night – get on with it !!!!
A few year back I made a resolution not to make resolutions!
I have kept to it ever since.
Seconded here too. So happy Monday night/Tuesday morning. And thank you for broadening my knowledge and making me laugh over the last month or so since I found your blog.
I made you laugh? That’s really shot me down in flames then. I was so hoping to be taken seriously…
You?? Seriously???
In your dreams!!!!!
Anyway Happy Hogmanay to you and yours!!!
Me too. The date was arbitrarily chosen centuries ago and actually means nothing! I make promises to do better, to myself, regularly, not just in the middle of the darkest time of the year.
Just keeping going must be a big enough challenge on your croft at this time of year….!
We went to bed at 10pm last night, and fortunately it was raining, which completely drowned out the sound of fireworks (if they had any. Last year it went on until after 2am!) and we had a good night’s sleep.
You do a good line in serious as well
i’ve long thought new year would be better celebrated in spring, these days. the whole.. wanting to start up a new routine (often an exercise routine) often palls in the face of crappy weather, so actually starting the new routine in spring (when the weather may be better) is better: gives you a chance to continue it through summer and autumn and by that time, its a routine all of its own, so it has a chance to survive through winter. ah well.
Happy new year to you too!
keth
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Keth – until 1752 (when the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian one) New Years day was in fact celebrated on March 25th…
cogidubnus – yep, i’m aware of that – i’m somewhat of an avid history reader. makes me cross when writers get it wrong (which they occasionally do). then there’s the pagan new year at the end of October, the jewish one.. i’m sure the hindus, muslims, sikhs all have their own version of new year! maybe new year isn’t so much a matter of a date as a state of mind? which several people have commented on i think. thanks for the reminder though!
keth
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