That'll be about Brussels then...
A trip to the old Vaterland on Tuesday for the next round, then I could be off every week from then on for a wee while...
It was fantastic to hear seagulls again today. Worth the hours of train travel alone...
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Are the Burns Fayre on yet? I'll have my Haggis in the traditional Scottish manner, i.e. battered and deep fried! In fact do my neeps & tatties the same way. I'll wash it down wi' a pint o' heavy!
To all scots hae a good evening!
DD out
LOL! Aye - I've just popped in with a HUMOUNGOUS steaming bowl of haggis, and the neeps and tatties are in the car!
A wee dram to keep you going!?
Congrats on the Frankfurter thingy Moose!!
DD - thank you for your good wishes for Burns Day! Can I assure you that no Scotsman/woman worth their salt would DREAM of having their haggis deep friend! I wonder where this information came from, that we eat everything deep fried? There's not a single person I know in Glasgow who cooks their food like that!
Hey ho, I'm ready for the party!
I've brought along my Burns book, opened at Tam O'Shanter, I have a bottle of best whisky to put on the table and the neeps and tatties are just ready to come to the boil as I type. Hopefully, Susan is supplying the haggis!
Hoots Mon, one and all.
C xx
P.S. I will also be supplying JD for Hazel, who doesn't like whisky!
No fried haggis here! Freshly caught, cleaned and cooked by my own fair hand!!
Did you bring your bagpipes, Chrissie, so you can pipe it in? I hope Not-so-Big Un brought his dirk!!!
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An cut you up wi ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
'Bethankit' hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect sconner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit:
Thro bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.
Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!
Grrrr .... Mr Er Or 502 is bugging me next door!!!!!
Susan - brilliant! Can't understand a single word of it!
Where's that whisky? After about nine of them, that poem will make perfect sense!
xx
Hey Chaps
Burns greetings to you all, as an interloper - but warmly welcomed in this fair land - I feel I can't make any references to the Bard... because I am not qualified to do so.
I'm not keen on Haggis either - however, Smoked Salmon is always welcomed - Whisky (yuck!) Gin is better, Baileys is Irish (sorry). MrCaroline is going to a Burns supper tonight, me and wee one are making cakes (Or is it Land 'O the cakes!) and other baked goods because we are having a small gathering to warm our upstairs rooms - just converted.
Hey Moose, DD and NotsoB'Un - those Kilts are a swinging..superb!
Girls, I feel a lie down/eyes open/looking up is required...naughty floor anyone?
Down the hatch!
OOOps!
Knockout!
Love Caroline
Chrissie
Is it like ketchup on chips? A Glasgow/Edinburgh split!
My source for the info today was actually a Scot, who waxed lyrical about the qualities of battered deep fried Haggis. I'll take the wee dram though!
DD out
PS and shent him homewardsh tae think again! hic
Does my Sporran look big in this?
DD out
Yes, there is a Glasgow/Edinburgh split! With your fish 'n chips in Glasgow you get salt 'n vinegar. In Edinburgh you get salt and BROWN SAUCE! What's that all about?
Will you have your dram neat, or horror of horrors, with water?
What do you mean, ginger ale???!!!
Caroline - good to see you. Sounds like you have a lovely evening planned.
You may need a couple of strong coffees after this shindig!
x
Good grief! NEAT! I may be a Sassenach, but I'm not sacrilegious!
DD out
Ooooo ... who's for a Dashing White Seargant!?
Watchout boys she's off on her military kick again! Remember last week and where that got us?
DD out!!! and running
A Dashing White Sergeant? With my bad back?!
Good luck Moose with the trip next week. Keeping things crossed for you!
Happy Burns Night to our lovely Scottish contingent. I wouldn't know a haggis if it leapt up and bit me, I am with Caroline on the smoked salmon front!
Apologies for my absence of late. I have lurked but not really had anything to input. I am still off work and probably will be for another couple of weeks but am making a steady, if somewhat slow, recovery.
Enjoy the party this afternoon and I will post again soon!
Take care and have lots of fun!
Amanda x
hey hey
strip the willow!
I've been reeling with MrCaroline.
Have baked shortbread, anyone fancy a dunk? All welcome
Love
Caroline x
So good to see Caroline and Amanda!! Look at 'em strip the willow!!!
DD - you can't get away that easily!!!
At least I haven't knocked Chrissie out with a door!!!!
Getting into the swing of it now, Take your partners for the Gay Gordons.....OOer is that Graham Norton with a G&T - alright for me!
Have posted next door, but extremely unsure of etiquette after such an absence.
Get into position - Swing those hips and kilts, Hey!
Great moves Susan, fancy footwork Chrissie, mind those flashes DD, Amanda, stop giggling and link arms with DD!
Anymore of this anwe'll all have to have a rest on the sitooterrie in the yard
love Caroline x
Just had to pop out for more neeps.
Well, actually my boss asked me to do some work ...... but you get my drift!
Lovely to see Amanda making an appearance. What a brave soldier she has been!!
Caroline - any shortbread left?
xx
Have i missed it all!? Sorry then.
Happy Burns night!
xx
Evening!
BIG changes planned this last week. We're moving back from whence we came... Have to save my daughter from herself...
Today was beautiful - felt v springlike here - and the Daffs are halfway up in my garden.
Of course, my boy and his team won their rugby matches today, which helps - lol!!!
Will log in when I can,
S xx.
Hi Tall people!
This is a short note to let you know that Lyndyloo is still around but due to ridiculous work commitments she is unable to comment at this time... She misses you all and will hurry back as soon as she can.
Luv
Booboo
-x-x-
Good morning troops:
Sammie - good luck with your plans. Your daughter is a lucky girl, she has such a determined and loving mum.
Booboo - lovely to hear from you. Give Lyndyloo our love!
Moose - hope the trip goes well tomorrow.
We spent the weekend putting the final touches to MsS' bedroom which has been decorated beautifully by someone who knows what they're doing! MrS suggested he could have a go at painting and wallpapering, but I really can't afford therapy for the nervous breakdown I would undoubtedly have, so the cheaper option was to bring in an expert!
Result? MsS now has a bedroom straight out of a magazine and I am trying not to be too jealous!
Hope everyone is o.k.
C xx
Well hep-di-doo all of yoo, and indeed Booboo! It's good that dogs can type. Cats find it hard as they don't have opposable thumbs and can't hit the bar.
Anyhoo, muchos grassyarse for the JD, and it was the badger's birthday party on Friday, so I had it then, and we had choklit birthday cake too. There was also much reelin'.
So, MOOSE, congratulations lovely boy. I hear Frant is beautiful in the spring
love
hazel
x
hey all. how's it going.
Just dropped by to say hello, am sat in the kitchen with 47 smelly candles on in the hope that it will get rid of the smell from our airedale's lovely present for us this evening, thank goodness she didnt step in it.
Not got much to say, except hi and.... oh, hang on - Susan, you've had a hair cut. Wow, it looks fabulous.
;o)
xx
PS Jo, hang in there - it does get better!!!
PPS Happy belated birthday badger..... has it really been a year since the last one!?!
LOL!!! Thank you noticing Anna!!!!
wonders how Anna knows!!
I can read your face like a book! ;o)
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