Well we had a fabulous evening of feasting, singing, toasting & rhyme. We ate traditional haggis 'neeps & tatties (lamb, lamb's offal & spices boiled in sheep's intestine - although
I think they just use plastic these days!) and rich fruit pudding & cream. Megan played auld lang syne etc on her flute, Beth sang '
My Love is like a
red red rose' between episodes of laughter, I tried singing too which scarred the cats and as you can see above, Angus MacNidge came and did the traditional Selkirk toast in a pathetic accent that kept drifting into Irish! Then the lads toasted the lassies and the lassies toasted the lads. (Toasts were with a nice red wine rather than the traditional malt whiskey!) It was a really fun family evening. Beth loved it too, the expression below is just because she hates it when I point a camera at her, but I have to... she's just so gorgeous!
I think they just use plastic these days!) and rich fruit pudding & cream. Megan played auld lang syne etc on her flute, Beth sang '
My Love is like a
red red rose' between episodes of laughter, I tried singing too which scarred the cats and as you can see above, Angus MacNidge came and did the traditional Selkirk toast in a pathetic accent that kept drifting into Irish! Then the lads toasted the lassies and the lassies toasted the lads. (Toasts were with a nice red wine rather than the traditional malt whiskey!) It was a really fun family evening. Beth loved it too, the expression below is just because she hates it when I point a camera at her, but I have to... she's just so gorgeous!
3 comments:
Wish we were there to join in. Sounds like a hoot. The kids were inspried about your Burns night, that they did a mini study about him, labelled a map of the British Isles and went through his poem, My Love is like a red, red rose, line by line figuring it out, talking about similes, metaphors, etc... Poor Aidan thought it was gross- too mushy. ha!
My Scottish friend Helen held a Burns night for us last year with Haggis and the ode the Haggis, oh my, I couldn't believe how long that poem was, we each read a verse and it went on so long our food was cold. Looks like you had fun!
Hi Nigel, that looks great fun! Can you send me your email address, got a pic for you.. cheers
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