At some point, we’ll stop using this picture and actually do a new one. Maybe next year….

It’s the 1st of January 2015 and that means a day off. After that we go back to work and carry on with the stuff from last year.

Not exactly the message of hope and dreams but it is at least grounded in the reality we live in.

In a change from last year’s New Years, I will attempt to start the first of January in a way other than nursing a particularly bad hangover now that we’re all older and in some ways, perhaps not much wiser and be assured of not waking up next a mysterious stranger which seemed like a good idea at the time and awkwardly trying to make for the front door.

This year, that can come Friday the 2nd January instead when it’s cheaper to wander out and do the exact same thing without forgetting to sing a song you don’t know at midnight, not unless that song was “What is Love” by Haddaway.

Then again you would never see that on the BBC at midnight, so here it is from YouTube instead.

New Years Eve always fragments people in terms of what they should be doing on such an occasion and the endless discussion afterwards seems to play out like a contest to see who is a better human being. There never seems to be a right answer to this, and over the years, various enterprises have been proposed and implemented, with no certainty of the outcome of the evening at all. Aside from sleeping afterwards.

Maybe you get tired from playing games with complete strangers, complaining that they were cheating and suggesting naughty things to do to themselves, or like many others you were thrilled to be watching Fireworks go bang in the night sky to celebrate the start of something rather grand in comparison to what happened before.

Perhaps you spend the night pining over someone who is out of reach while watching Bridget Jones’ Diary, forever lamenting a chance to seize the opportunities when it was presented, and resort to getting back onto Tinder, just so you can pretend to have a dating life. Maybe there was nothing good on the TV and you just ate chips from the day before. Perhaps you’re even one of those people who went to the gym at 1am on New Years Day as it was going to be quieter then.

Maybe you’re just relieved to have gotten to the end of year alive and in no worse position than when you started the year. Or you made the big decision to change everything and now am loving every minute of the results of that change.

Whatever happened, whatever you chose to do which made you happy, sad, fat, thin, rich, poor, we here at Ooh Sometimes will leave you with this message;

Just have a decent new year, where on reflection you can get to the end of 2015 and just say when asked how it was; not bad.