HOGMANAY

i.e. Sunday 31st January if you are not Scottish.

Went to work but in all honesty didn’t do much! There were only three cars in the car park and the lights were not even on in my corridor there were so many offices closed. The silence was spooky. Even the phones were not ringing.

So left early and went to visit Debs on the way home. Gave her a Buddha for Xmas which is now sitting pride of place on top of her drinks cabinet at the entrance to her flat.

Very appropriate.

Then home for a wee sleep before the revelry of the evening.

Well that was the plan but my sleep angel was obviously off partying already so tossed and turned a few times then gave up and got up.

Cooked some nice dinner to line the tummy, shit, shaved, showered and shampoo'd, put the glad rags on and then off to the Madinat.

Met Cally, Rob, Ron, Nick, Omar, Kelly and Tony. It was just like another Thursday evening to be honest. We are spoiled here, every weekend is a big celebration so the New Year is actually not much different.

We got ribbons for free Champaign from 11pm, which I swiftly kept giving away for fear of another Champaign hang over from hell.

Just beside us there was a guy bopping away on his own all night so being the good peeps we are Cally and I sent Rob off to invite him to join us.

Tim was here for 2 days from Bahrain. Chatty and interesting he soon became one of our gang.