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It’s the last weekend of the year it’s time to party

Since this is my last column of 2012, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year when it comes. I hope 2013 exceeds your wildest hopes. Here’s what’s coming up in Bermuda:Tigress Entertainment is giving you a great opportunity to celebrate the last Friday of 2012 as they present Cherry Wine at Cosmopolitan Nightclub. Drinks specials will be on offer all night with YGS Entertainment and Supatone playing the best of old and new in Top 40, soca and reggae. For a mature crowd only, from 10pm until 3am.Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 on the door and are available from Secrets, Kit-n-Caboodle and Kea on 704-0211. Spend $20 at the bar and have your name entered into a raffle to win two free trips to NYC.If you’re celebrating the last Friday of 2012, you may as well use the last Saturday as an excuse to party too! McLoviin promises the coolest party of the winter at Ciroc Deep Freeze at Cosmopolitan Nightclub. iMEGA, New Era and Supatone will play all your favourite high-energy party hits all night long from 11pm until 3am. Admission is $20; the first 30 ladies will pay only $5.The Cellar at Fairmont Southampton promise an NYE party you won’t forget. For one night only, the Cellar will double in size, with an extra lounge room open with some fun surprises. Drinks specials and music courtesy of Supatone and DJ Chubb from 10pm until 3am.Champagne will be provided at midnight along with other party favours. Tickets, $50, are available from www.bdatix.com. For VIP table reservations call 704-0330.ClearView Suites and Villas also invite you to celebrate New Year’s Eve with them. Cocktails will be served from 7pm, followed by a buffet dinner from 7.30pm until 9pm and then dancing until 2am. Tickets are $95 and include the buffet meal, appetisers, petit fours, a glass of champagne at midnight and NYE party favours.For tickets, contact kbdarose@gmail.com/537-2020, Grass Roots Productions, David Hughes on 518-3543 or LaVerne Furbert on 293-8232.To save you the trouble of getting a taxi home afterwards, ClearView are also offering special room rates for partygoers. For details, contact clearview@northrock.bm or 293-0484.The Caledonian Society of Bermuda’s Annual Burns Supper will be at Tucker’s Point Hotel and Spa on Saturday, January 26. A Burns Supper is a celebration of the life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, author of many famous poems and songs, including Auld Lang Syne.You do not have to be a literary buff to enjoy this, you just have to enjoy cocktails, dinner, poetry and entertaining toasts and speeches. The pre-dinner cocktail reception (cash bar) runs from 6.30pm until 7.15pm, with the five-course dinner beginning at 7.30pm.Tickets are $85 per person and available from IHind@becl.bm or www.ptix.bm. This event sold out last year so don’t delay in getting your tickets. Details on confirmed speakers and the menu will be atwww.CaledonianSocietyofBermuda.com soon.Petals want to help you make more floral creations in 2013. The first event will be an informational session on the topic of wedding flowers on Saturday, January 26. From 10am until 11.30am, Marguerite Clark and Nikki Begg from Bermuda Bride will help you learn how to use flowers to accent your wedding.You are invited to bring along any colour swatches, inspirational images and material that you’d like to work with. The cost is $25 per person.A second session, Brighten Your Home With Flowers, takes place Monday, January 28 from 6pm until 8pm. Learn how to arrange flowers in your own vase, and how to create a stunning floral arrangement from a dish in your kitchen cupboard!All flowers and foliage needed for both arrangements will be provided, but you are asked to bring along your favourite vase and an interesting favourite container from your kitchen (such as a pudding basin, bowl, cache pot or basket).The cost is $100 per person. Workshops will be held at the Petals studio (across from Masters Ltd). Register on 292-7303 or sarah@petals.bm.For full events listings and flyers, please visit www.NothingtodoinBermuda.com. The above is abbreviated content from that site.