Ah, another Hogmany, another spirited rendition of Auld Lang Syne by the Family von Krapp. This year saw an increase in both instrumentation and general musicality, despite Janey practising so hard in the 5 minutes before UK midnight that she busted right out of her d-string and had to relegate to playing rhythm fiddle, standing in a slightly ginger manner.
This year, we had Breagh 'fingers' Lane on electric piano and Cameron 'thumper' Lane on a mesh-headed snare drum, in addition to regulars; Janey 'not a full set of strings' Barker on aforementioned fiddle and Richard 'too many fingers not enough space' on geetar. It was a corking session, we flew through our list of phone victims in record time. Methinks it was partly down to it only being 8pm in Canada, so 'not a full set' Barker and 'too many fingers' Lane weren't overtly stotious. Actually, we missed a few folk who I daresay are currently breathing sighs of relief, and we didn't carry out our threat to phone back when it got to midnight in Nova Scotia - a rude 4am awakening for UK listeners.
We started ripping the hardboard off the walls in one upstairs bedroom, so for the bells we had a roaring fire going in the firepit out the back and brought the New Year in under a starry, frosty sky toasting our cockles, or at least preventing them from freezing and dropping off.
Lots to do in 2008, some would say 'too much', and I would probably agree, but in the usual barkerlane stylee we will resolve to continue to make rods for our own backs, sticks to whack ourselves over the head with and generally overextend ourselves. I shall be continuing in my chosen profession of hair-shirt knitter.
Have a good one y'all!
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