How can it be 2013 already? I must say though that the final days of last year were excessively good fun.......there is something about this time of year that takes me right back to the summers of my misspent youth. Just before Christmas, we travelled back in time to a party in a paddock in the Midlands.....B&S Ball style.....except that it was to celebrate a friend's 40th birthday and there was no denying that we just aren't 19 any longer. I may have momentarily forgotten this fact while discoing to 'Khe Sanh'......belted out by a two man band in the marquee.....can you believe that one of the band was my old school tutor. Bizarre coincidence. In case you're wondering, I'd better just mention that RM Williams were still the footwear of choice for the chaps (my husband's were black denoting the fact that he, obviously, is a townie) yet mercifully the ladies had moved on from taffeta dresses and puffy sleeves.
Hobart really comes alive once all of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht's start arriving:
And this year, while wandering along the docks, if you felt so inclined, you could go skating on a synthetic rink:
Seventeen years ago I met my now husband amidst the fun and festivities that go along with the lead up to New Year's Eve in Hobart......while the friend I was out and about with met a grinder (before you ask, that's someone who operates the winches to hoist and trim the sails on a yacht) from that year's winner 'Sayonara'. We scored an invitation on board for a New Year's Eve party.....this year three of us who went to that party way back then had to make do with a dinner party at my house:
Which was a much more sedate affair.....yet it was still after three by the time it all wound up.
Happy 2013!
Rx
Happy New Year Romy!
ReplyDeleteAnticipating a wonderful year....every best wish for 2013 to you too! Rx
DeleteLooks like lots of fun!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to share fun with great friends, don't you think?! Rx
DeleteHappy New Year!!! 5 months til our exciting trip! xxxx
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you too FF! Counting the days until our gardening spree! Rx
DeleteI love parties in paddocks! Haven't been to one for far too long. And Hobart at NYE is so much fun, would love to do that again too.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Romy x
Happy New Year to you too! Had been a long time between parties in paddocks for me too....almost 20 years...as evidenced by the grey hair and wrinkles wrought by the passing of time! Fun to reminisce though. Rx
DeleteHappy New Year. Your dinner party looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the festivities in Hobart. Xx
Happy NY to you too Bonita! Dinner party was lovely, so nice to be with such wonderful friends....I did all food in advance and then a friend's son did hors d'oeuvres and another friend took over the kitchen to do entrees with fish he'd caught that day....perfect! Rx
DeleteHappy New Year Romy! The party in paddock sounds like fun - just like the 21st's I used to go to for my rural friends many, many years ago (thank God I never went to a B&S, although some of the 21st's were only slightly more upmarket, meaning they didn't sell tickets to them). Did you have to sleep in your car/ swag afterwards in a paddock? xx
ReplyDeleteHappy NY, Heidi! B&S's were a big thing down here amongst my friends and great fun...at the time! Mercifully, didn't have to sleep in car.....hostess organised a bus from town which left at 3pm and returned at 12.30am...it had been promised for 10.30pm which seemed much more sensible. Rx
DeleteI'm looking forward to high jinks with you this year, Miss Romy! J x
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