deely boppers , auch: deely bobbers , auch: deely

(Enter Keith from The Farm wearing deely boppers and a Father Christmas suit.

The gifts bestowed on Sarah and her friends are Comic Relief deely boppers, and the final shot of the scene is K-9 sporting a Red Nose.

As long as people aren't wearing crotchless jeans outside primary schools or deely boppers with attached sparklers on petrol station forecourts, we've all got the right to wear exactly what the hell we like and I can barely believe that we're having this debate.

Before I knew it, crates of champagne were being ferried in and the house was being draped with shiny red 'Happy New Millennium' banners and special one of the deely boppers - they had '2000' written on them - were being distributed as guests arrived.

Those who love it celebrate it by going to parties, wearing glittery deely boppers, joyously doing the conga, shouting, 'TEN, NINE, EIGHT . . .' with gusto, kissing everyone in sight and generally feeling full of hope for the forthcoming year.