Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here’s a hand, my trusty friend
And gie’s a hand o’ thine
We’ll tak’A cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3afAIi6IQ&feature=related
Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (1849 –> 50)
France – New Year’s Eve is: La Saint-Sylvestre Jour de l’An (New Year’s Day)
The French call New Year’s Eve La Saint-Sylvestre. It is celebrated with a feast called le Réveillon de Saint-Sylvestre. This tradition includes dishes such as foie gras washed down with champagne. The event can be a dinner with friends and family or a communal ball (une soirée dansante).
Following la Saint-Sylvestre is Jour de l’An (New Year’s Day); this is a time for meeting friends and family and exchanging good wishes and maybe gifts. The French round off the holiday season on Epiphany.
Italy – La Festa di San Silvestro
Germany – Saint Sylvester
Chaul Chnam Thmey – Cambodia
Ōmisoka – Japan
German New Year Tradition – Neujahrsbräuche
Bleigießen pronounced BLYE-ghee-sen) ‘Lead pouring’ (das Bleigießen) is an old custom where sages read molten lead, much like mystics read tea leaves. What they do is melt a lead cherry sized piece of lead a tablespoon (by holding a flame under the spoon) and then poured the molten lead into a bowl of water. The resulting pattern is interpreted to predict the coming year. Common interpretations include, a ball (der Ball), indicates that luck will roll your way. What people fear is any sign of a cross pattern (das Kreuz) as that signifies a death.
What is Hogmanay?
The Hogmanay festivities get underway about lunch time on the 31st of December. At about 2 minutes to midnight a lone piper plays, then after the chimes of midnight everyone sings Auld Lang Syne. In rural areas you may find first footing dances, called ceilidhs. It is considered lucky if the first person to cross the threshold is a tall dark stranger. This superstition may have resulted from fear of fair Viking raiders who were bent on rape and pillage.
Possibly a more modern tradition is exchanging gifts known as ‘Hogmanays’. Indeed it is interesting to observe which countries and cultures exchange gifts at Christmas, and which exchange their presents (or ‘Hogmanays’) at new year. What shaped Hogmanay from the 17th to the 1950s was that Scots rejected Christmas because they thought it a Catholic and an English festival. As a result Protestant Scots worked through Christmas Day and Boxing Day then celebrated Hogmanay with a vengeance.
Derivation of the Word ‘Hogmanay’
The majority opinion is that comes from the Gaelic oge maidne meaning ‘New Morning’. However, several French words have also been suggested as the source. Hoguinané, or anguillanneuf, which roughly translated means New Year Gift.
Perhaps the best way of summing up the Scot’s attitude to celebrating Hogmanay is to declare the 2nd of January as a public holiday – to recover from the new celebrations. It is worth noting that there is big difference between the raucous celebrations with strangers in Edinburgh and Glasgow; compared with the more ritualized celebration where you know everyone in Scottish Islands such as Lewis.
Too much happening in the GBS household, I’ll do a New Year’s message tomorrow…. till then, see you NEXT year!!
Happy happy!
GBS
Have an evening off, drink too much, and suffer as much as me on the 1st day of 2011.
Thanks to all of RT’s contributors for all of your hard work and commitment.
WE APPRECIATE IT!
A New Year’s Wish
On New Year’s Eve, Marilyn stood up in the local pub and said that it was time to get ready. At the stroke of midnight, she wanted every husband to be standing next to the one person who made his life worth living.
Well, it was kind of embarrassing. As the clock struck – the bartender was almost crushed to death
Blur- The Wassailing song (Full version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk4LSrugwRY
When I thought about the evils of drinking in the New Year.
I gave up thinking.
DIE GOEIE, OUE TYD
Sal vriende ooit mekaar vergeet, al moet ons nou weer skei,
verbind deur al die lief en leed in tye lank verby?
[REFREIN]
Die goeie oue tyd, my vriend, die goeie oue tyd!
Sal ons ou vriende ooit vergeet en die goeie oue tyd?
Die goeie oue tyd, my vriend, die goeie oue tyd!
Sal ons ou vriende ooit vergeet en die goeie oue tyd?
As kinders het ons saam gespeel, so vrolik en so bly,
en ver geswerf, dit was ons deel in tye lank verby.
[REFREIN]
Die goeie oue tyd, my vriend, die goeie oue tyd!
Sal ons ou vriende ooit vergeet en die goeie oue tyd?
Die goeie oue tyd, my vriend, die goeie oue tyd!
Sal ons ou vriende ooit vergeet en die goeie oue tyd?
Nou, hier’s my hand, getroue vriend, gee ook jou hand aan my,
dat ons vandag weer saam kan dink aan tye lank verby.
[REFREIN]
Die goeie oue tyd, my vriend, die goeie oue tyd!
Sal ons ou vriende ooit vergeet en die goeie oue tyd?
Die goeie oue tyd, my vriend, die goeie oue tyd!
Sal ons ou vriende ooit vergeet en die goeie oue tyd?
Woorde: Teks uit “Bloemfontein Express”; gewysig: P. MCLACHLAN
Musiek: “Auld Lang Syne”, Skotse Volkswysie; verwerk: PIETER DE VILLIERS
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE
i hope u all have an even better 2011 and the Boks win the WC again and The Sharks win the Curry Cup and the Super 15, oh and the Boks win the Trinations. Big new years kiss to every one MHAW !
@ Treehugger:
Happy New Year to you to Treehugger and all on the site, may it be a great one for you all and the Bulls and Boks do all the winning 🙂
Happy New Year everybody!
Happy New Year Rugby Talkers – May 2011 be a happy and healthy one for you all, look forward to lots of banter during the Super 15 games.
@ superBul:
Hi superBul, glad to say there is not too much Wassailing these days in these parts even though Alex James of Blur has a farm just down the road!!
We still have Morris Dancing here though…..saw a bunch of them outside a pub waving their hankies and jangling their bells yesterday!!
It is quite sureal and terribly rustic! 🙂
Happy new year to all and sundry!!!! hope you have a wonderful, exciting eventful 2011.
Oh and of course, may the bulls rake in the cups 🙂
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
May you have a prosperous and healthy new year.
If you want to stop smoking just do it.
If you want to make a million just go for it.
13@ biltongbek:
Hellooooooo
Same to you man!
So, who wants to stop smoking? Wie wil nou eendag met pienk longe innie begrafplaas gaan loop lê?
… and why only ONE Million…. not nearly enough….. hehehe
grootblousmile wrote:
Eish ou vriend ek hoop nie die woorde kom byt jou in die gat nie. Dis n lelike ding.
@ superBul:We can nag until we are blue in the face, but GBS has deaf ears when it comes to smoking!!
Have I wished you a Happy New Year superBul? If not, have a good one.
@ Blue Bird:
Hope the first week did not spoil your new year already. If not from my side, hope you have a great year.
The England cricket team must make your days.They are humiliating the Aussies. This test belong to your home grown boys.
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