Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone!

As we welcome 2025, it's time for another annual tradition here on Outlandish Observations: an old-fashioned Hogmanay celebration, as they might have celebrated it on Fraser's Ridge 250 years ago.

A firstfoot was to bring gifts to the house: an egg, a faggot of wood, a bit of salt--and a bit of whisky, thus insuring that the household would not lack for the necessities during the coming year.

(From THE FIERY CROSS by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 35, "Hogmanay". Copyright © 2001 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

I can't participate in a first-footing myself, even if I lived in Scotland (redheads being considered extremely bad luck on such an occasion), but I'd like to share these small tokens with you anyway.

basket of eggs

kindling

salt in a bag

whisky

Hogmanay in OUTLANDER Episode 308

Happy New Year, and best wishes to all of you in 2025!

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Notable Dates This Month

Mid-January 1744 - Jamie comes to Claire at the Abbey; Faith is conceived (OUTLANDER)

January 3, 1745 - Hal and Minnie are married in Amsterdam (A FUGITIVE GREEN)

January, 1758 - William is born (VOYAGER)

January, 1758 - Lord John and Percy meet for the first time (BOTB)

January 1, 1765 - Jamie and Laoghaire dance at Hogmanay celebration (VOYAGER)

January, 1770 - Jamie, Claire, and Ian leave River Run to search for Roger (DRUMS)

January 1, 1771 - Hogmanay celebration; the Beardsley twins arrive on the Ridge (FIERY CROSS)

January 21, 1776 - The house on Fraser's Ridge fails to burn down as predicted (ABOSAA)

January 1, 1777 - Ian accidentally kills Mrs. Bug (ECHO)

Late January, 1777 - Tom Christie is told of the fire on Fraser's Ridge (ECHO)

January, 1778 - General Simon Fraser is buried in Corrimony, Scotland (ECHO)

January, 1966 - Frank Randall dies in a car accident (VOYAGER)