Dag 1059: Happy Hogmanay

The wind is blowing outside and it is new years eve yet again. It is 8 minutes to midnight and I am in bed already because I don't like new years eve and there is no way I'm going to stay up past midnight tonight - no matter how awake I am. Some people probably don't like new years eve because they don't like going out, but I do like going out, just not on new years eve. It is far too busy and there is too much expectation about the whole thing. I don't like doing what is expected of me, I like doing what I feel like doing at the time, so new years eve is one of my least enjoyable nights of the year.

I think I also need to say that this year the TV has been about the worst that there has ever been over an xmas/new year period. There hasn't been a single new episode of Poirot, Miss Marple, Midsummer Moiders or any other program that I usually enjoy watching over the smas/new year period. One of the only saving graces is that there is a brand new Taggart on on Wednesday night. There have been a few good things on BBC, but they have been pretty much all comedies and they have shown them all about 3 times each to try and pad out the scedule. Fortunately I managed to get a Nintendo Wii which has filled in all of the many times when there has been nothing good ojn TV, but the downside is that I am now suffering from Wii Arm.

It is now 2 minutes past midnight and as the fireworks are going off all around, despite the adverse weather conditions, I am reminded that most countries on the earth, as we know it, seem to have come up with some derogatory term or other for most other countries. If some people from another workd were to decide to come up with a suitable term for us earthlings they would probably come up with something like:

Garlic eating, jockstrap wearing, carpet munching, cross dressing, whale blubber sucking, goat milking, tree hugging, double crossing, religious bigotted, crystal gazing, war mongering, armchair shopping, pulp fiction reading, tea drinking, sun worshipping, surrender monkeys.*

*Apologies if I have missed any of the stereotypes you may fit into, but there just wasn't enought room for them all to be included.