New Years Eve

[Andrew]

2019 just round the corner.

 

Doors locked curtains drawn for us. To many crazy people out there full of alcohol ready to fight or maim others.

[chesters1]

We generally do both anyway ,i always wonder why people sit at night with the curtains drawn ? Wanting you to see how posh they think they are?

Nothing like that here most drunks probably drown in the river long before they get here the rest get lost in the woods .

We did go on holiday and found on our return you could open the door as the lock had busted but crime is rare ,the toss up between streetlamps and no street lamps (how close you are to 'civilisation')

Happy new year ! Wasnt there one about this time last year?

[gozzer]

I wish everyone all the best the coming new year can bring.

 

I'm doing it early because I'll probably be tucked up in bed for 'the bells'.

I'm aching, sweating, shivering, and coughing up some pretty unpleasant stuff at the moment, although I'm feeling a little better than I did on Saturday.

We will have to forgo our usual New Years Eve trip to the top of Otley Chevin, to join hundreds of other hardy Yorkshire folk in bringing in the new year. It's become a bit of a tradition, and from up there you can see out into Wharfedale on one side, and across Bradford and beyond, on the other. A couple of hundred plus, people just chatting, wishing each other well, a few fireworks, and the occasional small nip of something festive, then back to the 'real' world. A friendly gathering of strangers, of all ages, lasting about 20 or 30 minutes, in the cold, but well worth the effort.

 

John.

[Andrew]

I'm aching, sweating, shivering, and coughing up some pretty unpleasant stuff at the moment,

John.

 

Ditto John.

Mrs and I have both got stinking colds. Horrid cough keeping me awake at night I was up at 2.30am for a cuppa this morning. We ended up watching a movie.

[John S]

Happy New Year everyone

 

I've just settled down with a snack of cheese on crackers and some tins of Old Speckled Hen. Later will watch a movie or two (TV is crap) with a couple of glasses of Drambuie. Fortunately the dog isn't scared by fireworks going off, so will probably take him out just before midnight to watch them going off.

 

Then back indoors and hopefully see the first images coming in of Ultima Thule from the New Horizons probe (fingers and everything else crossed).

[Steve Walker]

Sorry to hear that, John, there are some really nasty bugs around at the moment. I had it in early December and still have a bit of a cough. My elderly neighbour got it about the same time and was laid up for a month. It's not flu, but it's bloody horrible.

[gozzer]

Sorry to hear that, John, there are some really nasty bugs around at the moment. I had it in early December and still have a bit of a cough. My elderly neighbour got it about the same time and was laid up for a month. It's not flu, but it's bloody horrible.

 

Cheers Steve, it's easing off a bit now. Aches and pains not as bad, and the gunk loosening in my throat. It's a long time since I had the flu, and that was really bad, this is not as bad, but as you say, 'bloody horrible'. My 3 year old grandson started with a bad cough, and complained his "body was hurting". A trip to the Docs diagnosed a chest infection, and he seems to be responding to antibiotics. I certainly didn't want him to go through the same as me, although me having COPD hasn't helped.

 

John.