Xmarks Burns Supper @ Ferintosh 2007!

[Freelander Sporrano]

What can one say Robertson and Emma....Up yours!!!!

(It's not rudeness it's a private joke)...Still recovering....Happy to know you made it such a great weekend

Ps. Photos later today

[Derek]

What an absolutely fantastic weekend it was. Like Robin has already said, I too am a little speechless at the moment. Thanyou Em and Robertson for all your effort in making it a very very special occasion. Pics to follow over next couple of days. And like David, I too would like to say to everyone who was there, 'Up Yours' .. can't wait till next year!
Iechyd Da
Derek & Elaine

[porrick]

An effing week-end:

Fantastic Ferintosh Family

What strikes Anne-Lise and myself is that usually one says "yes, we had a great week-end". However, this time we can look back and say "yes, each and every one of us had a great week-end!" An interesting little difference there that says it all

[dwg]

To all myself and Ham are the last one to return to our homes me at 18.00 tonight and Ham go to his home at 20.00 and all I can say is 'Up Yours' no we really as a mate of mine used to say we had a very very "LARGE TIME"

photos very soon I need some sleep

Derek

p's I took 242 photos over a long 5 day weekend Friday - Tuesday

[David Dalglish]

Helen & I would also like to thank Robertson & Emma, for all the hard work they put in to make it a fantastic weekend. I would also like to thank everyone who was there for making it a weekend to remember.

[starbkjrus]

An effing week-end:

Fantastic Ferintosh Family

What strikes Anne-Lise and myself is that usually one says "yes, we had a great week-end". However, this time we can look back and say "yes, each and every one of us had a great week-end!" An interesting little difference there that says it all

I couldn't agree more. EVERYONE had a great weekend!

Helen & I would also like to thank Robertson & Emma, for all the hard work they put in to make it a fantastic weekend. I would also like to thank everyone who was there for making it a weekend to remember.

I also would like to echo David's sentiments. Thanks to all and especially to Robertson and Emma.

[cessna152towser]

Thanks Robertson and Emma for making Ann and I so welcome at the Burns Supper. Ann really appreciated all the help and the food and entertainment were absolutely superb.

[Hamish]

Oh, dear! Last again! I got home last evening and collapsed into bed totally exhausted after one of the best weekends ever. Even now, I am still feeling at a loss for words to describe the Ferintosh Burns Night Weekend, so I won't even try - the superlatives have been used and I muist go along with each and every one of them.

I have now been home for 24 hours (although is seems like 2) and I have not yet connected my camera to the computer ......... I have no idea what my (probably over 200) photos look like yet, and I've not yet looked at anyone else's. I have developed a streaming cold and am going to have an early night, so the pix must wait for another day.

Will just say, what a genuine and massive pleasure it was to meet all the X Markers who attended and, above all else, to Emma and Robertson, congratulations and heartfelt thanks for providing us with hospitality, extravagance and the extras beyond our wildest dreams.

Hope to be back tomorrow with some more photos.

[porrick]

I couldn't agree more. EVERYONE had a great weekend!



I also would like to echo David's sentiments. Thanks to all and especially to Robertson and Emma.

Dee, still jet-lagged????? Hope you had a peaceful trip home - great meeting you

Speaking of trips home:

Travelled kilted with bagpipes as handluggage on four flights to get home from Dumfries, and no incident before security check in Oslo....

First time there has been a metallic beep from my clothing, so I was searched manually by metal detector. Great amusement when the male security staff was to search instep. He was totally bewildered as how to do that (!). A female colleague jokingly offered to take over, but alas protocol ruled. Ended up with a quick poke up the kilt mith the metal detector, one embarrassed security officer and a good laugh had by his colleagues, other travelers and Anne-Lise and myself

[starbkjrus]

feirst news frae the front!

starbkjrus arrived a' Ferintosh oan time...

but wearin' TROOSERS!!!

ai informed him that he cuid no enter the hoose wearin' troosers!

sae he removed his troosers an' entered Ferintosh!

the pairty has begun....

I do feel like I have to explain just a little bit.

First of all I refused to travel sitting on a plane for all those hours on all those pleats. So I wore troosers and decided I'd change in the changing rooms in the Glasgow airport. Well, I arrived in Glasgow but my luggage was still in London. British Airways swore that they would (and they did) deliver my luggage to Ferintosh that evening. SO I arrived at Ferintosh in troosers. Not the most auspisious arrival but I was so jet lagged that it didnt' matter to me at the time. Nor did I mind having to remove my troosers to be allowed in the door. I'm sure that odder things than that have walked through that door. ( and more will too....)

Robertson and Emma were very kind and simply suggested I go up and shower and take a nap. I said that would be a good idea and a nap was in order. They said again I would feel better with a shower and a nap. I agreed and said I was going to go nap. The said again that a shower and a nap would work well. Ok, well I showered. THEN I started to put the clothes back on that I'd had on for 20 hours or so and REALLY understood they insisted on a shower. Whew!

At that point I couldn't get to sleep and since Porrick and his wife ( who later got stuck in Amsterdam) were due to arrive and we were doing dinner and a pub crawl I headed for "Anderson's".

Got a belt, hose, Jacobite shirt (which I've never worn before and now have decided I love) and an off the peg, ex-hire kilt in the Queen of the South tartan. (See pics in the Friday night pub crawl thread).

Gee things really CAN work out. And no, I didn't have to wander about Dumfries TOO long without my p$%ts. I"m sure that the rest of us during the weekend upset the locals more than that did.

Funny thing about it is....I wore kilts for my entire trip home..including my USAK Casual on the plane trip from Glasgow to Washington DC. Most comfortable trip I 've ever taken.