FORUMula1.com

[LewEngBridewell]

It's New Year's Eve... anyone got any plans?

[darwin dali]

It's New Year's Eve... anyone got any plans?

It's not over here

[Jabberwocky]

going to the local club for a few.

[andrew]

It's New Year's Eve... anyone got any plans?

No. It's just another day like any other.

[LewEngBridewell]

Less than 60 minutes left of 2012 here in the UK.

[andrew]

I get 2 days off and I get paid to not be at work!

Good start to the year.

[LewEngBridewell]

Anyone tune into Big Ben and all that?

Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong 2013 is here. It had better be good.

[andrew]

I was leaning out the kitchen window at the back watching fireworks and listen to ships horns from the harbour.

[andrew]

Today in 1973, Last of the Summer Wine, the longest running sitcom in the world, premiered as an episode of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse.

Worth a mention seeing as it's awesome.

[Jabberwocky]

it went down hill when compo died

[andrew]

Yep. I find the later episodes a bit hit or miss at times but it certainly wasn't the same without Compo/Bill Owen.

Some of the later characters like Entwhistle, Alvin, Truly and Billy saved it from obscurity. Still funny but in a different way.

[Jabberwocky]

there is only so many ways that an elderly man can fall into a bath and slide down a hill while sat in it.

[andrew]

True. Very few did it better than Compo.

So how many of us want to live out our retirement like the bloke in LOTSW?

[Jabberwocky]

It is like my life now, just a bit younger and less falling in the bath.

[LewEngBridewell]

I'd love my retirement to be like Last of the Summer Wine