Although I lived in England as a child, my Scottish mother always insisted that we celebrate New Year’s Eve in the Scottish way, as her parents and grandparents had. All bills were paid, the house was cleaned,  then before midnight the old year was taken out of the back door, then all doors and windows in the house were closed, trapping any revellers in until the first person (the first foot) came to the front door after midnight, bringing in the New Year with them. Normally, because I was the only child at this otherwise adult celebration, I was […]

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