Birthday Treat

[maggiebee]

Youngest grandson's 11th birthday today. After a segway session at a local centre then going to see his local team (Dundee FC) getting beaten, he got to choose where we went for tea. Must say MacDonalds would not have been my first choice for a Sunday evening but he loved it. Back to auld claes and parrich tomorrow.

[Mamyalynne]

Has to be done sometimes, it's their day.

Love that term the first time I heard it.

Parritch and Auld Claes
From Douglas to Ardrossan light
The churning screw repeats the tune;
From London in the deeps of night
The engine sings it to the moon;
The paddle beating from Dunoon
In every ear the music plays -
The requiem of honeymoon,
"Parritch and auld claes."
The mist obscures them from our sight;
The mist may never rise again;
But who would live for mere delight?
We are not butterflies, but men.
With hand and brain, with spade and pen
The monument of toil we raise;
A draught of summer wine - and then
"Parritch and auld claes."

Farewell to stream and shore and height,
The flowery glen, the ferny fall;
The moonlit waters, silver white,
The sand’s al fresco concert hall;
We hear afar a sterner call
And bravely with the stoic phrase
We epitaph them one and all -
"Parritch and auld claes."

[tonyav]

Sounds like he had a great day ( except for his team losing ) for an 11 year old.

[Buenchico]

Doesn't every 11-year-old boy think that McDonald's is the very best eating place in the whole wide world?

[goodgoalie]

I've often wondered how you choose your team in Dundee when their grounds are so close. Is it a family thing? Are you 'born into it' so there is no choosing?
Been to Draffens yet?

[maggiebee]

Love that poem Mamya, will save it thank you.
Goodgoalie - Yes, no choice for my family, Dundee FC all the way.
Draffens? Another one of our lovely department stores gone forever.

[goodgoalie]

No maggie - I mean the 'secret' bar in Couttie's Wynd

[goodgoalie]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Draffens/578387975701840

[maggiebee]

Aahh goodgoalie sorry I picked you up wrongly. Yip, the secret bar is a great wee place, but not so secret now. Coutties Wynd has never been so busy in years.