Haggis Patties, a great leftovers meal or super easy to make from scratch.
Helen’s Home Cooking: Haggis Patties
The First Orkney Burns Club Supper 1898
“A club of good fellows like those who are here/And a bottle like this are my glory and care”
“Freedom and whisky gang the gither” – Burns
As the Burns supper season approaches, it seems apt that this report on Scotland’s national drink has just been published. It shows that the sector creates £7.1bn annually, which means that Scotch […]
The End of an Old Song
Burns detested the political class that bought and sold Scotland for English gold. “Sic a parcel of rogues in a nation”, he wrote
Wish You Were Here
” The pandemic allowed many of us to press the reset button, to re-evaluate, to prioritise. And I realised that I actually missed it. Like, really missed it. And I recognised the absolute joy that people experience in a gathering, a Ceilidh, a blether, a kind word, a joke, an embrace, a handshake.”
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Fresh northwesterly winds. Maximum temperature 8 °C.
Robert Burns, “The Voice of the Scottish People” – Sanday Supper 1948
” let us once again rise and drink, to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns, seer, poet and social reformer – the Voice of Scotland speaking to the World” John D. MacKay
The First Orkney Burns Club Supper 1898
“A club of good fellows like those who are here/And a bottle like this are my glory and care”
Rare Burns’ Manuscripts Go On Display
As we approach the celebrations to mark the birth of Scotland’s greatest poet, Robert Burns, 12 original manuscripts written by the bard himself are to go on display this January as part […]
Halloween Tales From Orkney: Robert Burns
“Some merry, friendly, country-folks,/Together did convene,/To burn their nits, and pou their stocks,/And haud their Halloween”
