Photos from our Burns Supper

**TurboKittie** · 22nd January 12, 02:19 PM

Looks like a wonderful time! The scarf is even lovelier wrapped around your lady.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 22nd January 12, 03:01 PM

Unfortunately it is hard to get people in my neck of the woods to even try Haggis, let alone make a main course out of it. So we were perhaps better off with the beef. However, the haggis was very flavorful, I am happy to point out - and so was the beef! So no complaints from me.

**Standard** · 22nd January 12, 06:00 PM

Great photos Matt. I wish there was a more active Scottish community in my area so that we could hold an event like yours and many others. You and your wife look great.

**tulloch** · 22nd January 12, 06:16 PM

That is great Matt. Thanks for posting those.

**OC Richard** · 22nd January 12, 07:15 PM

Yes thanks Matt!

BTW this gent could well use a longer jacket/waistcoat, and a higher kilt... I'm not sayin', just sayin'

**MacGuffin** · 23rd January 12, 02:01 AM

Great photos Matt! I haven't gone to a Burns Supper before but it looks as though it was a smashing evening.

**Oddern** · 23rd January 12, 02:48 AM

Nice pics Matt. Looks like a great time. I'm looking forward to the Burns Supper at The Caledonian Society of Norway this comming Saturday. Hopfully I will attend in a new kilt and sporran.
Skål!

**chewse** · 23rd January 12, 07:08 AM

Thanks for sharing the photos with us Matt. Was that wine I see on the tables or whisky? If whisky, what brand(s) was being served?

**castledangerous** · 23rd January 12, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by McClef

Great photos Matt.

I am a little disappointed to see Haggis reduced to an appetiser though - it should be the main course! I have seen that in Scotland too, however.

But unless Burns wrote a poem about beef I, for one, cannot see how it fits in to a Burns celebration, delicious as it is.

"O what a canty world were it,
Would pain and care and sickness spare it;
And Fortune favour worth and merit
As they deserve;
And aye rowth o' roast-beef and claret,
Syne, wha wad starve? "

**macwilkin** · 23rd January 12, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by castledangerous

"O what a canty world were it,
Would pain and care and sickness spare it;
And Fortune favour worth and merit
As they deserve;
And aye rowth o' roast-beef and claret,
Syne, wha wad starve? "

Well played, sir!

I would add:

O Lord, since we have feasted thus,
Which we so little merit,
Let Meg now take away the flesh,
And Jock bring in the spirit!

-- Burns Grace written for Wm. Hyslop, Keeper of the Globe Inn

Not to mention that The Sekirk Grace states: "We hae meat".

I think most true Burnsians would love to have only Haggis for an entree, but in my opinion, it's better to introduce folks to Burns's works.

T.