We’re getting too long in the tooth for this exhausting New Year malarkey. The days are long gone when we would queue up in the rain, squeezed into sequinned hot pants outside some over-priced sleazy boyz club to take recreational drugs and shake our booties into the wee small hours, surrounded by half-naked sweaty men in tight jeans wrapped in fur and tattoos. Come to think of it, it doesn’t sound that bad at all. Sadly, the spirit is willing but the flesh is oh, so weak. Such unfettered decadence is best left to the young bucks who bring up the rear with stamina and a little lovin’ in mind. No, for us, it was a quick bite in town then back home to a warm hearth, Graham Norton and a bottle of bubbly, all capped off with the South Bank fireworks courtesy of impossibly blond London Mayor, Boris Johnson (a wolf in a golden fleece if ever there was one), Vodafone and good old Auntie Beeb. And fabulous pyrotechnics they were too. It’s always good to bring in the new year with a bang don’t you think?
Perking the Pansies 
Sequinned hot pants? Now that I need to see a photo of!
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They’re locked up in a safety deposit box 😉
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I’m amazed at the timing in the countdown. An explosion of fireworks as soon as the gong sounded. Fascinating.
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Twas truly spectacular.
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*nods*
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Don’t recall if I sent Happy New Year wishes your way. 🙂
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Not sure either so happy New Year to you too 😀
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😀 😀
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. . ‘Old Farts’? I’d invite you to join my exclusive club but I don’t really think you qualify yet – you need the boring bit to be a genuine ‘Boffer’!
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Boring? You? I can’t believe that!
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What a show – Londoners sure know how to put on a spectacle and I’m not talking the hot pants!!
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It gets better every year 😀
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I’m right with you on NYE (although I never did the hotpants!!) NYE at home rocked this year! I hope 2014 brings all you need!
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Thank you you and wishing you great things for 2014 too!
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My good friend Claude, no stranger to a drinks party or two the rest of the year, refers to New Year’s Eve as ‘amateurs night’ – and I quite agree!
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Has a certain witty ring to it!
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Please don’t hang up your hot pants yet.
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Too late. The restraining order has been issued 😉
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Looks like you caught everyone with the sequinned hot pants. Did they look anything like those retro bathing suits? 😉
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They do seem to have caught imagination and the answer is kinda 😉
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No jagermeister this year then?
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Sadly not 😀
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