For Auld Lang Syne -- New Year's Eve 2011

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Well, if it's late January, you can always say it's a nod to Burns Night.

I'm curious. Do you cross arms and hold hands throughout, or do you do it the traditional Scots way -- waiting until the first lines of the last verse (And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere! And gie's a hand o’ thine!)?

Cross and hold throughout - sway on first land of last verse.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Cross and hold throughout - sway on first land of last verse.

That's how it's often done outside Scotland. Her Majesty took some grief when she was seen in a televised Millennium New Year's Eve celebration with Tony Blair and she seemed reluctant to take his hand. People (and some of the press) in England took her to task for being too reserved and not being wiling to be "one of the people." But folk in Scotland defended her, saying that, as Queen of Scots, she knew perfectly well not to join hands until the last verse.