Some fun stuff and a couple of poems.

 

Fun stuff from around the world -

1.At midnight, eat 12 grapes. One for each stroke of the clock.

2.Smash a plate on your doorstep for good luck. Then do the same for your friends and neighbors. The more shards on your doorstep by morning shows how well-liked you are.

3.Stand on a chair at midnight and “leap” into January.

4.Open the doors and windows at midnight to let the old year out and let the new year in.

 

First poem

Promise by Jackie Kay

 

Remember, the time of year

when the future appears
like a blank sheet of paper
a clean calendar, a new chance.
On thick white snow
You vow fresh footprints
then watch them go
with the wind’s hearty gust.
Fill your glass. Here’s tae us. Promises
made to be broken, made to last.

 

Second poem

Good Riddance, But Now What? by Ogden Nash 

 

Come, children, gather round my knee;
Something is about to be.
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year.