New Years Eve, Hogmanay - Whatever You Will .;;

Thank heavens the years have passed and spared us the horror of Andy Shandy and his Bandy with that screeching Stewart woman on the Hogmanay Show.

Replacing that ghastly period there is now Jools Holland and his Hootenanny Show with him stumbling his way through a list of largely unknown (to me) assorted 'musicians and singers'.

Then there is the inevitable rending of some unintelligible twaddle by a Scots 'poet' with many unwilling participants not knowing the words, confused as to the accompanying hand jive and wishing that they were anywhere but there!

The Scottish nation bears much responsibility for some of my darker psychoses especially at this time of the year ...

'Twas New Year's Eve in the workhouse,
Jules Holland as principle prat.
We don't want your Auld Lang Syne,
Don't want no more of that.'