Happy Burns Night

To all our Scottish members

 

Thank you Mum .

Mum got my haggis neep and tatties .

We are at a real Burns supper last Sat.(my maiden name is Burns)

And the chap who recited Tam Oh Shanter was excellent .

http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm

 

Happy Burns nights to the Scots & hapus Dydd Santes Dwynwen to my felllow welshies on here too

 

I also wish all our Scottish and Welsh members the best for celebrations today/tonight.

 

Slainte

 

Happy Burns Night to all Scottish GC friends
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!

 

he must have met me in a past life

 

What about those of us that are exactly 12.5% Scottish, approx 12.5% Irish, the rest some incalculable mix of Yorky and Northumbrian? Do we get any haggis?

 

Of course! 12.5%

 

When I was little, my dad had me believe that a haggis was a funny animal that lived in the mountains of Scotland. Its left legs were shorter than its right legs, so it could only run anticlockwise round a mountain.

Much more recently than that I saw a documentary about the changing trend in tourism to the Scottish highlands, often being corporate away-days these days, with people who rarely leave the city of London, coming up en-masse. One landowner has capitalised on this in a novel way, by leading a haggis hunt. His staff do up haggises with some feathers to make them look like a weird bird, and hide them in the strategic places around the estate. Then all the city boys go out and shoot them.

 

We had a good night with the strangest haggis of all. Sweet and sour haggis, this was a real different way of having it. Thought it would not work, but it did and went down well with Sake too.