Happy Burns Night Everyone

[Redhelen72]

Raise your glass, enjoy your haggis and have a great night.
We had one on saturday past and will have another this saturday.
Although I do have haggis bites in the freezer I may pull them out for lunch.

[Vagus]

Same to you Helen, hope your second ‘do’ is as successful as your first.

[Dizmo]

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 ye 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;
Then 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’ bluidy 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!

[Redhelen72]

Thanks guys

[Dizmo]

I hope you have a nice night. It has been years since I had to address the haggis.

[Redhelen72]

I have some lovely friends coming round and they make the best tablet going so I know we will have something lovely to go with the coffee at the end - which is also roasted in Argyll.

[ZebuSanctuary]

// been years since I had to address the haggis //

Do you struggle with pronouns?

[wolf63]

Tesco had Haggis Pizza last year!

[Dizmo]

Nope, I no longer live in a house where others eat haggis.

[Redhelen72]

Wolf - I had haggis pizza a few years ago when in Dornoch it was lush

[ZebuSanctuary]

// had haggis pizza a few years ago when in Dornoch //

I would expect nothing less from one who is as worldly-wise as you are.

[Redhelen72]

Zebu - do one

[barry1010]

Alexa offered to 'read my a dress to the haggis' this morning.

[Redhelen72]

That was very good of her - did you take her up on it?

[rowanwitch]

Did you know there are recipes using Zebu antelope if you Google them.... If you can make venison haggis....
Don't think I would fancy haggis pizza, a fusion too far for me, but I did have it in a bap with onions burger style at a food fair once, it was lovely.

[choux]

Good morning Redhelen x
This takes me back many a decade to a time when good friends of our family always invited my parents to the Burns Night Dinner as guests of the local Caledonian Society. Happy days.
Slàinte mhath.

[Redhelen72]

Morning Choux - that sounds a lovely night

[choux]

It was quite the grandest night of the year for my parents and they always looked lovely as they set off for the dinner dance :)

[gness]

And to you, Helen. We will raise a glass tonight. Off to a Cork hotel today so doubt there will be haggis.

[Redhelen72]

Thank you Gness spent a very drunken St Paddy's in Cork

[pastafreak]

It's ages since I've had any haggis. I didn't get any last year...and I totally forgot on Monday. My head was /is quite clogged up and fuzzy...so brain is mush.
Maybe I'll pop into town later and get some.