Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The New Year's Eve Effect

Why Why Why does a lovely evening that starts out looking like this:

(note the hand-knits and jaunty disposable hats)

Always leave at least one person looking like this:


At least the table cloth soaked up my pinot before it reached his pant-legs...

How do you do the New Year? And is it ever as good as you hoped? For next year, boy I tell you what...

...Bomb Shelter.

2 comments:

Anne-Marie said...

You know.. I just didn't do new years this year.
I think the problem is that anywhere you go in this country is so full of drunk people who try and kiss you at midnight, that I just decided to stay in, and not really acknowledge the fact that we are into a new calendar.

Maybe next year things will be different. Morven wants to go on safari :)

Free Range Chick said...

I think that next year I will be hosting a slumber part so that all of my daughter's friends' parents can go out and allow themselves to look like drunken idiots. I'll be having fun throwing confetti at 10pm and going to bed!!!