\nWhat is the one (or two or three) tradition(s) you have for New Years?
\nDo you make sure to kiss someone? How bout singing songs?
\nMaybe a special hat? Or yes even making resolutions that you don’t keep
\ncan be one! We want to see your tradition.
\nThe second part of the challenge is to use buttons.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This layout\u00a0may need\u00a0a little explanation for all you non-dutchies! On to the layout now: <\/a><\/p>\n “Over the years it’s become kind of a tradition:\u00a0the day\u00a0after Christmas we put on the radio and it doesn’t get turned off again!![\"\"](\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_sol_sketch.jpg\" "\\"01_sol_sketch\\"")
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\nI combined\u00a0the ScrapMojochallenge\u00a0with this sketch Scrapping out Loud\u00a0
\ncame up with…<\/p>\n
\nIt’s about music (you guessed already, huh?) and the “wohwohwooh-part”
\nis from a song by the Doobie brothers.
\nMaybe it should’ve been “wowwowwoooow” or “wohohooow”…
\nbut if you know the song you understand it in every way, don’t you?
\nWell, that was\u00a0the easy part\u00a0to \u00a0explain!
\n<\/a>In the Netherlands, every last week
\nof the year
\nthe “Top 2000”
\nis broadcasted
\non the radio.
\nIt’s a music program and it
\ngoes on for 6 days,
\n24 hours a day.
\nI guess you have a “top whatever” at your country too
\nso you probably know the drill…
\nThe month preliminary to\u00a0the event, people vote on the Internet
\nfor their favourite songs, and the best 2000 songs are being played (starting on\u00a0December 26th- at midnight) It’s become sort of a big event over here, and most dutchies listen to it or at least have heard about it.
\nI guess most of the voters\/listeners\u00a0are people between 25 and 60 years old,\u00a0
\n’cause the songs\u00a0on the list are mostly from the sixties and seventies – the music we like in our family!<\/p>\n
\nAs a background I used the original list from the morning paper (glad I\u00a0kept that! And if you take a good look right below\u00a0and have real sharp eyes: there’s\u00a0the dutch top 10. The\u00a0number 1 is played\u00a0last and is finished exactly
\nat midnight\/new year)
\nAnd yes, you see me with an old\u00a0portable radio\u00a0on the picture. There where years that was the only radio we had… The\u00a0top pic is me with my son watching “top 2000 a-go-go” on the TV (see journaling) and in the middle is my son looking over the list. Well, you’re up-to-date now so here’s a translation of the Dutch journaling:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe last week of the year our house is filled with\u00a0“Top 2000 music”. On the table\u00a0lies the – cut out of the morning paper and often consulted – list with all the numbers.
\nWe play a game together “catch the song” (name title and artist) and my men are astonished again, like\u00a0every year, by all the lyrics I know and can sing along. I wonder which part of my brain is responsible for that? Old years eve we spend in front of the\u00a0telly watching “the top 2000 a-go-go” A program filled with music and broadcasting the top 10 numbers in music-clips. Every year\u00a0we end AND begin with music!”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n