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Scottish New Year

We all know around the world that the Scottish New Year is highly significant and steeped in traditions. Mostly stemming from pagan and even Norse traditions and customs, they are ingrained in us, well us old folk anyway. You all know this because our song 'Auld Lang Syne' (times long past), by Robert Burns, is used all over the world, which has always surprised me. There are many traditions at New Year but I'll stick to the ones I know about and practiced through my life. Auld Lang Syne, do it properly. You should be in a circle around the dancefloor to sing it, holding hands in the normal way, at the last verse you cross your arms over your chest and take hands with those on either side of you again, I see foreigners crossing the arms all through and that's wrong. When the song ends everyone should run onto the dance floor still linked together, then you all have to twist under your arms without letting go so that you face outward from the circle.

Haud Hogmanay

Hogmanay is our biggest night, the above is how to say Happy Hogmanay in Scots. This happens on 31st December as midnight approaches. Major preparations are in place for this event and right now people are scurrying about making sure their houses are absolutely spotless, Redding the House, that all the dirt from the old year is out. You should have all debts paid before the bells too but this is nigh on impossible in todays economic climate. We also call this 'The Bells' When the bells ring at midnight you should be doing several things. Here where I live we do still have the horns from the shipyards going off at midnight but usually you hear church bells too. As they ring you should be spotlessly clean, house clean, food ready for guests, you should be holding a drink in one hand and food in the other, you must have money in your pocket. This is to ensure food will be there all year long. Whatever you are doing at the bells is what your year will bring. Once the bells have rung out, signifying the start of the new year, you should open a window to let the old year out and the new year in. This is when people step out of their homes and go 'first footing'. Also as soon as the bells ring you must turn your calendar over to the new one. My new one is currently on the wall under the old one, I will remove the old one when the bells ring.

First Footing

Your first foot is the first person who will cross your threshold in the new year, it is hoped that this person will be dark haired, I wasn't allowed out of the door until we had a first foot because I was blonde, just in case I came back before a first foot, a dark haired person brings luck, a male is preferred. Obviously in old times dark haired people were few and far between in Scotland and the Norse areas, which favoured blondes and red heads. Now this person is also charged with traditions and they must have 3 things. Food, drink and a piece of coal. It is also lucky if they bring a coin with them. This is them bringing prosperity to your home. Never turn up at a Scots house in the week after New Year empty handed, on the off chance you are their first foot.

Food for Hogmanay

Many things are traditional, cock a leekie soup, even Cullen skink (fish soup, yuck), Haggis Neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes), most commonly steak pie is made for the bells. This came from a time when Hogmanay wasn't a holiday (it still isn't) and there was no time for food prep so often the steak pie was bought from the butchers. A meal will be enjoyed with the family and there should be enough for any unexpected guests, never run out of food or drink at New Year, yes we do have a whisky. Shortbread of course and my favourite 'bun', this is a type of cake, we have Madeira (plain), sultana or my favourite, which I just had, cherry bun. Clooty dumpling is also very much a part of it all, the leftovers from this can be fried in the morning for breakfast, I don't think many people make the dumpling from scratch now but I do remember my gran and mum doing it. The dumpling would have a coin in it , wrapped in greaseproof paper, it was considered lucky to find the coin. For some odd reason as a kid I always got the bit with the coin from my grannies clooty dumpling, I was the first grandchild, it was rigged. At that time it was a sixpence, which I called a wee shilling, if you don't get that, you never will.

Bonfires, yes we did but not sure this still happens, old pagan thing. Fireworks are loud just as the bells ring and they go on for too long in my opinion.

The celebrations can go on for a full 3 days and sometimes still do, people in a family pick a day they will host, we always did the 2nd when I was a kid. I remember in the morning waking up and finding the living room full of sleeping people while my mum would be in the kitchen making French toast for them all, along with some of that fried leftover clooty dumpling. It's not as busy at New Year as it was back then, with many people just staying up to hear the bells and just going to bed, like I'll be doing tonight, don't worry I do have my cherry bun and a wee dram of Jura Whisky to 'bring in the Bells'.

Ramblings and memories of an old Scottish Woman.

Translation of above Scots

May the best you've ever seen be the worst you'll ever see. May a mouse never leave your (pantry, larder, food cupboard) with a tear in his eye, May you be healthy and strong until you're old enough to die. May you always be as happy as we wish you to be.

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Most of The Sims games from the 2000s are quickly becoming abandonware! Here’s where you can find them! Because FUCK Article 13! Dedicated to ANYONE who might be affected. (Updated NOV ‘19!)

Just to add onto @uglytownie ‘s post about The Sims 2, I know there are some of you out there that would also like rarer titles from The Sims’ massive back catalog. 

If anything happens to this blog because of this post: My NEW twitter handle is @nostalgiasim, my discord is SimWorld (this link never expires), and my personal Neocities page is myonlinepityparty.neocities.org.

PC Games:

The Sims 1 + All EPs

The Sims Life Stories 

The Sims Castaway

The Sims: Pet Stories

The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection

If any of these links do not work for any reason, whether you need technical help or those files are no longer available, you can also find these abandonware games at Games4TheWorld. However, The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 can also be found on that site and I do not publically condone piracy. G4TW world also has an extensive forum for getting these older games to work. You can look for help there. :)

All of the following games are emulator ROMS found on Vimm’s, a trusted website that has been around since the ‘90s. 

GameCube:

Bustin’ Out

The Sims

The Sims 2

The Sims 2 Pets

Urbz, Sims in the City

Gameboy Advance:

Bustin’ Out

The Sims 2

Urbz, The Sims in the City

The Sims 2: Pets

PlayStation 2:

Urbz, Sims in the City

The Sims

The Sims Castaway

Bustin’ Out

The Sims 2 

The Sims 2: Pets

Wii 

The Sims 3

The Sims 2 Pets

The Sims Castaway

Prima Guides

ALL Games - The Sims + All EPs, The Sims 2 + All EPS, The Sims 3 + Almost all EPs, Bustin’ out, Castaway, Medieval, etc. 

Extras (Updated!)

The Sims 3 Store (ALL CONTENT)

The Sims 2 Store

(Rare!) The Sims 2 Preorder gifts and Maxis Gifts from the now deleted TS2 Website!

Literally, if ANYTHING on this list goes down, message me. I’m not hosting any of it but I’ll absolutely put out another updated post!

Reblog for others! If don’t want it someone else might!

1908 Queen Anne - The Master Bath

This is the final room. I would have loved to have shared the entire lot, but since I install cc as package files, uploading/installing would be a huge hassle. Anyway, this last room has a lot of goodies, so I hope everyone is able to find something to their liking. At some point, I may go back and list all the items used in each room (more than likely not! LOL), but wcif’s are welcome until then. On to the downloads…

Bathroom Art on Maxis Mesh ($50/Paintings, 60 Polys, CASTable) swatch

Two towel edit of Gosik’s Glass Bathroom Wall Towel - pics 1, 2, 4 & 6 ($55/Paintings, 816 Polys, CASTable)

2t3 conversion of Hulasims Round Ottoman, polys reduced and remapped ($100/Coffee Tables, 5029 Polys, CASTable)

LV Alma Bag deco - new mesh ($2000/Sculptures, 2712 Polys, CASTable) swatch

LV Tivoli Bag deco ($2000/Sculptures, 5859 Polys) swatch

Never-ending Camino Real Arches (pic 3) - new meshes, end and middle arches ($100/Arches, 934 & 452 Polys)

2t3 conversion of Pavli’s Condrus Armchair ($200/Living Chairs, 3380 Polys, CASTable 4 color channels & Pavli’s recolors) swatch

Serene Wall Lamp - pics 1 & 3, new mesh ($100/Wall Lamps, 572 Polys, CASTable)

4t3 conversion of Severinka’s Eco Living Tulips ($0/Plants, 1336 Polys, CASTable & SV’s recolors)

1 & 2-tile Glass Shelves - 1-tile in pics 1, 2, 4 & 6, new mesh ($20/Misc Surfaces, 1400 Polys, CASTable)

4t3 conversion of Starlord-sims deco conversion of SLYD’s Celine Trapeze bag ($2000/Sculptures, 2240 Polys, CASTable 4 color channels & SLYD’s snakeskin recolor)

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New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

Three New Pasta Recipes

I was eating one of my absolute favorite foods, Chicken Alfredo the other night, when the realization that I know how to make custom recipes sunk in, and I had a new idea. And that idea turned into this!! Here are 3 new Fettuccine Alfredo Recipes for the Sims 3!!!!

The Recipe Details:

These all require Level 4 Cooking Skill and can be served during Lunch and Dinner.

Fettuccine Alfredo: Requires Garlic, Butter, and Parmesan Cheese

Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo: Requires Shrimp, Garlic, and Parmesan Cheese.

Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo: Requires Chicken Breast, Garlic, and Parmesan Cheese.

Please Note: The Butter, Parmesan Cheese, Chicken Breast, and Shrimp ingredients come from various cooking mods, but because all 3 of the recipes have Garlic, a Base Game included ingredient, they are also Base Game Compatible and you don’t need to download the mods if you don’t want to. However, if you want the custom ingredients, they are listed below:

1. Cooking and Ingredients Overhaul by Cinderellimouse-

https://modthesims.info/d/548787/cooking-and-ingredients-overhaul-more-nectar-ingredients.html for the Chicken Breast and Shrimp.

2. Baker’s Basket Plants, Ingredients and Recipes by Icemunmun-

https://modthesims.info/d/594851/baker-s-basket-plants-ingredients-and-recipes.html for the Butter.

3.   Green Vegetable Plants,Ingredients and Recipes by Icemunmun-

https://modthesims.info/d/555310/green-vegetable-plants-ingredients-and-recipes-update-23-02-2016.html for the Parmesan Cheese.

I hope these make your sims as hungry as I was making them! Have fun and enjoy!! I couldn’t upload the file to Simfileshare at the moment for some reason, so it’s on mediafire instead. Sorry about that.

Download Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/d26cutnpoarssyh/LaurenisasimmerFettuccineAlfredoRecipes.rar/file