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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Duncan Brown on January 01, 2006, 13:10:13
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My Head hurts so much today
Stuff first footing
It`s something they do up here
some body else will tell you all about it, I`m back off to my bed
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I take it you had plenty of coal for the fire then Duncan? :D
Happy New Year. \:D/
...........and for the uninitiated (sp)....
What is First Footing?
Traditionally, it has been held that your new year will be a prosperous one if, at the strike of midnight, a "tall, dark stranger" appears at your door with a lump of coal for the fire, or a cake or coin. In exchange, you offered him food, wine or a wee dram of whisky, or the traditional Het Pint, which is a combination of ale, nutmeg and whisky. It's been sugggested that the fear associated with blond strangers arose from the memory of blond-haired Viking’s raping and pillaging Scotland circa 4th to 12th centuries. What's more likely to happen these days is that groups of friends or family get together and do a tour of each others' houses. Each year, a household takes it in turn to provide a meal for the group. In many parts of Scotland gifts or "Hogmananys" are exchanged after the turn of midnight.
:wink:
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mines was good,thinking about maybe stayin up at my mates for the new year woulda been a good laugh lol,i could sooo live up north