Burns Night

Bagpipes, whisky, haggis, neaps and tatties were the theme of the night as we celebrated the legendary poet Rabbie Burns! This is a very delayed blog post to say thank you to everyone who supported us with our Burns Night to raise money for Help The Hospices. 

Order of Proceedings

·    Gather: guests to gather and mingle and enjoy the haggis canapés

·      Welcome Grace: The Selkirk Grace followed by the serving of cock-a-leekie soup

·      Parade of the haggis: piping in of the haggis to traditional Scottish bagpipe music.

·      Address to the haggis

·      Haggis, neaps and tatties, Fife Miners stew, Meat and Potato Pie to be served.

·      Traditional Scottish Desserts: Cranachan and Dundee Cake

·      Liberal lashings of wine and ale will be available for guests

·      Toast to the lassies!

·      Traditional Scottish Ceilidh to commence

·      Auld Lang Lyne

We surprised our guests by hiring an actual Scottish piper called Jim! Jim piped in the haggis and then recited the official 'Address to the Haggis'. 

Following this Jim piped all of our guests across the car park into the pub where we hosted a traditional Scottish Ceilidh. The dancing was epic and a special thank you to our friend James who played the Ceilidh music on the keyboard and even did an incredible duet with the piper. 

We are so grateful to everyone for coming and supporting us, the raffle was also very successful (especially the Cliff Richard calendar!) and we raised a grand total of £550 which has made a huge dent in how close we are to target. A massive thank you to everyone who came and donated!

Karl and I had such a brilliant night and we hope everyone else did too! Naturally the night ended with a good ol' sing song to the most famous Rabbie Burns song of all time:

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And auld lang syne!"

- Auld Lang Syne, Robert Burns 

Many thanks for all your support: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/VickyandKarl