Tommy and Mick were out on News Years Eve and were discussing the happenings of the past year.

"I'll be glad to see the back of it" said Mick "what with the Christmas dinner going on fire and burning the house down."

"It burned for quite a while? Why did it take so long to put out?" Tommy asked.

"The firemen had all had a few and took ages to connect the hoses, some weren't connected properly and blew off wasting a lot of water from the fire engine and they took ages to get enough hoses down to the farm pond. They were all laughing and joking and then had a barbeque on the embers."

"Ah yes, embers" said Tommy "very appropriate what with the embers of a dying year."

"Years don't have embers yer silly old fool."

"They sure do" Tommy replied "Nov ember and Dec ember."