New Year Celebrations!

Big Ben New years Eve

Celebrating the New Year is always an anti climax I feel. I went to the Sports & Social Club with my friend Mrs. H this year and the best thing about it was the company! The 'acts' were not good, one passable singer, one that murdered Nessun Dorma (English: None shall sleep - there was NO chance of that with his catawalling!) and an Elvis tribute Act, all too loud and really not our cup of tea, but we amused ourselves with other things and stayed until well after midnight. We are stalwarts, if nothing else!

We started our evening by going out for a meal to a venue that we are quietly making our own. The food is always nice there, it is a welcoming place and nice 'n' warm! What more could anyone ask for on a cold winters night?

When we got to the Sports & Social club, we finally settled down at our third table, Mrs. H wanting to move around until she was exactly where she wanted to be ...she a terror for this!

We were pleased to see our formally inebriated 'friends' there from a previous visit, Dancing Spider and his wife, so we knew we were in for some kind if entertainment! We didn't have long to wait, it was a hoot! They didn't disappoint!

Mrs. H had other friends at this venue and they were all super people, the ones we sat with were dressed up as Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne. I got some cracking photographs, but for obvious reasons I cannot publish them!

We had a couple of dances just before midnight and all saw the New Year in together. When it was time to sing 'Auld Lang Syne', the closing anthem for New Years' Eve, Mrs H. disappeared, so her other friends and I sang our little hearts out without her! Where had she gone you may wonder ... outside to send a text and then had to ring the buzzer to get back in because of the door being locked with it being New Years Eve!

We had a good time and remembered absent friends, The lovely Miss A who is in the Caribbean and Mr. D (.... we are his groupies! ...) who is in Spain on a gig. Maybe it would be a good idea to follow him to Spain for 2009 New Year, he is a far better entertainer than last nights motley crew !!!