BURNS NIGHT 25th Jan 2008

[Kilbirnie]

Are the wild folk from the glens organizing anything?

Heard it it was good do earlier this year.

Kilbirnie

[sandman67]

Have a look on the food section - there's usually stuff on there.

I think Crawfords was intending doing a bash....

[Chas]

I'm the veteran ( I almost said victim) of more Burns nights than I can count, I found this thread title to be a blast from the past!!

As a longtime member of a pipe band back in Vermont, this was an important date on my winter calendar. . and let me tell you, you just haven't lived if you haven't been outdoors in sub-zero weather wearing a kilt!! (regimental, of course.)

The haggis wasn't too bad, if you ate it with enough of the oat crackers & Drambuie but I certainly had enough of Burns poetry delivered by a half drunk Scot in an accent so thick it might as well have been Swahili.( But then, I am French Canadian so maybe it WAS Swahili.)

Also, one of the levels of hell must be standing in a small room while 20 bagpipers are warming up around you. ( Even now I will run screaming from the room if I hear a piper start to play "Amazing Grace". . .dreadful tune, depressing lyrics.)

But Scots are great fun to party with and I managed to enjoy every single Burns night I ever went to, despite the above.