Greetings

[May10]

Happy Christmas to all and "a guid New Year"!

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

TY and good wishes to you.

[SheffieldJane]

Merry Christmas and happy Hogmanay to you May!

[yogabonnie in reply to SheffieldJane]

ohhhhh how I liked learning from wiki about Hogmanay and I wish I were off to Scotland to be someone's first foot! (In Scottish and Northern English folklore, the first-foot, also known in Manx Gaelic as quaaltagh or qualtagh, is the first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day and a bringer of good fortune for the coming year.)

[May10 in reply to SheffieldJane]

Thanks DJ.

[May10 in reply to May10]

Brain fog cannot even type SJ.

[Rugger]

Not sure if this is a seasonal greeting, May, but "Lang may yer lum reek"!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Rugger]

Certainly would be if you turned up on the doorstep in Jan 1st with a bit of coal in your hand...

[May10 in reply to PMRpro]

See my reply to Rugger. Must say I don't think Hogmanay is celebrated so much nowadays. When I came to England over 40 years ago. I told some friends about things we did in Scotland, including making a"clootie dumpling" They all said they .would come and taste this delicacy. I had it steaming for hours. At the stroke of 12 all with drinks in hand ready to salute my CD I took it out of the pot only to find that water had got in and it collapsed on the plate. Took me a long time to live that one down.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to May10]

Oh dear - was it edible or not?

[May10 in reply to PMRpro]

Definitely not. A soggy mess. At that time couldn't blame brain fog!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to May10]

[May10 in reply to Rugger]

Any time of the year Sue. As PMRPRO said good at Hogmanay. When I was a child as soon as midnight struck my mother used to throw one of my brother's outside with a piece of coal incase the "wrong" person should come to first foot.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to May10]

We used to have a great time when we lived in Scotland - no idea what it is a like now though.

[HeronNS in reply to May10]

May10, during his brief sojourn in Scotland, wartime, my father, I'm told, was very much in demand as a first foot, being a tall dark haired male!

[May10 in reply to HeronNS]

If only my mother could have found him! My brothers would have been so pleased.

[HeronNS in reply to May10]

He would have been 100 this year. He died in 1982. But he always loved Scotland. He met his first wife (my mother) on a train to Edinburgh and I guess by the end of the trip they'd fallen in love (wartime for you). He used to jokingly add a Mac to the beginning of his Polish surname, and was baptized and became a Presbyterian! The Scots were very good to the Polish exiles.

[May10 in reply to HeronNS]

Always a time of year for memories. My parents (both dead) had their wedding anniversary on Hogmanay.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to May10]

Strange isn't it - David's mother got married on Christmas Eve the first time and Boxing Day the second (I think at least).

[May10]

Relatives tell us it is quiet. We used to stay up all night and never knew in who's house we would end up

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to May10]

Same here - but that was a long time ago...

[May10]

Also a long time for us