Is it me or is Hogmanay the most overrated, hyped up night of the year? I can't think of another night which is given so much attention for no good reason. The best nights out are almost always the ones which happen spontaneously or when you least expect it. I think that's half the problem with Hogmanay. It gets built up so much that nobody wants to admit that maybe, just maybe, they aren't actually having that great a night after all. Days of preparation all to culminate in a lousy countdown to midnight followed by a shambolic rendition of Auld Lang Syne and of course everyone knows all the words to that past the first verse.... ahem. The finest example of the Hogmanay fizzle was in 1999 when it was joined by an even greater hype - the millennium. Yes, this time the world was going to end as planes would fall out of the sky and computers would spontaneously and inadvertantly start WWIII. Except none of this happened. Still, nice countdown though...