Happy New Year!

Dec 31

Hail, Labradoria! Daniel here, with Mabel, Watson, Jason, and the gang in tow, wishing to propose a toast! To the end of a brilliant year of productivity, of imagination, and of your collective, very kind patronage of the arts, that we might keep our wonderful works thrumming along! May another follow in its footsteps, preferably relatively free of pandemic, that we might all meet one day, trade tales, and play a game or two!

Shid ald akwentans bee firgot,

an nivir brocht[c] ti mynd?

Shid ald akwentans bee firgot,

an ald lang syn?

Oh, sorry, that’s the transliteration of a slightly more historical Scottish version.

(ahem)

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

and never brought to mind?

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

and auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,