Happy Burns Night

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  1. "M"

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    To all our Scottish members :ccheers:
     
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        Happy Burns nights to the Scots & hapus Dydd Santes Dwynwen to my felllow welshies on here too
         
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          Thanks Mum - I don't know if we are having haggis tonight or not yet as we are yet to go shopping, but in truth I doubt we will as its not easy to get decent haggis down here.
           
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          I also wish all our Scottish and Welsh members the best for celebrations today/tonight. :partytime:
           
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          Happy Burns Night to all Scottish GC friends
          Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
          Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
           
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          I prefer his other works:

          Where'er ye be, let yer wind blaw free
          Be ye in Kirk or Chapel, let it rattle!

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            he must have met me in a past life :heehee:
             
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              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?
               
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                Of course! 12.5%
                 
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                  Sounds to me like you ARE a haggis :biggrin:
                   
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                    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.
                     
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                      Had the haggis piped in the pub last night! I even got to stab it lol
                       
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                        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.
                         
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