Happy New Year!

Thursday, 31st December 2009

No blogging today: I'm off to try the delights of a London Hogmanay. Yes, really.

Frankly, the longer one has endured what passes for life on this so-called good earth the more one wearies of the boozed-up, back-slapping amateurs who infest hostelries tonight insisting that all's for the best in this the best of all possible worlds. If ever there's a night for confounding Panglossians it's Hogmanay. This is an evening for melancholy, regret, a Russian novel and a bottle of malt. And recrimination. Always recrimination. Another year gone. What's to celebrate about that?

Happily (or not as the case may be) the Reverend I.M Jolly is here to remind us all that there's more to life than happiness. A staple of every Caledonian child's youth, Rikki Fulton is one for the ages. Or something. The editor of this magazine will also, I'm sure, remember this kind of charming homily:

Be that as it may, a Happy New Year to all readers...

Filed under: Scotland (499 more articles) , Television (181 more articles)

Previous Back to Alex Massie Next

Blogs: Martin Bright | Susan Hill | Melanie Phillips | Coffee House | Faith Based

Actions: Print this article | Email to a friend | Permalink | Comments (4)

Post this entry to: del.icio.us | Digg | Newsvine | NowPublic | Reddit

Post comment

Snowman

December 31st, 2009 12:39pm Report this comment

compared to what’s coming, 2009 will be remembered with warm nostalgia.

Happy New Year 2U2, Alex – a try to be good in the rainbow city.

A. MacAulay

December 31st, 2009 10:28pm Report this comment

Read Bulgakov's, "The Master and Margarita" which will give you a laugh and a smile and a feeling that as long as there's a devil to take care of things, all will be well.

Fergus Pickering

January 1st, 2010 11:04am Report this comment

Cheer up, Sport. You haven't died in the night and England won another Test Match. What malt are you drinking? Mine, as I mentioned elsewhere is twelve-year-old Old Pulteney. If you haven't tried it there's another reason for living. The novels to read are not Russian but the complete works of J L Carr. Start today.