Paphos People
https://mail.paphospeople.com/ppforum/

Burns Night!
https://mail.paphospeople.com/ppforum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=519		 Page 1 of 1
Author:  Pete [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Burns Night!
To all you Scots out there.. Do you celebrate 'Burns Night' on the 25th Jan anywhere :?

If so, let everyone else know :!:
Author:  Candy [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:21 pm ]
Post subject: 
There are a few Burns Night celebrations going on, but sorry haggis is not for me. :puke
Author:  Neil [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:27 pm ]
Post subject: 
I am a jock through and through ,, but I dont like haggis either ..

I see they have named a wing after our famous poet
at the paphos hospital ..
Author:  Candy [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:29 pm ]
Post subject: 
Most people don't realise I am Scottish, born in Falkirk Infirmary and lived between Grangemouth (school term) and Slamannan (holidays), although I moved from there when I was 11.
Author:  Peppermint [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:30 pm ]
Post subject: 
Haggis is mmmmmmmmmmmm tasty!

Try it with nachos, sour cream and guacamole.

Fabulous :)
Author:  Pete [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:35 pm ]
Post subject: 
:offtopic Sorry, I must have posed my question wrongly :?

I was hoping someone would tell me where they go, is there anywhere that Scots meet to celebrate St Andrews :?:
Author:  Candy [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:39 pm ]
Post subject: 
I will celebrate it with friends in Zorros and drink a few drams - sorry girls only.

There has been a number of Burns Nights advertised - dances etc but I have not paid any attention to them sorry can't help.
Author:  Pete [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:39 pm ]
Post subject: 
Just had an email from our friend in Qatar giving me this link: http://www.cyprusstandrewsociety.com/calendar.html

So if anyone wants to know where they are, check the link out :wink:
Author:  Aargent [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:43 pm ]
Post subject: 
Oh Dear ! Oh Dear !
Pete St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland and Greece by the way has nothing to do with Robert Burns. St Andrew's night is 30 th November.
There are one or two Burn's suppers around, but they are a secret, if you know what I mean
Fair fa your honest sauncie face ! !

Alastair
Author:  PARAMED [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:55 pm ]
Post subject: 
THE St Andrews society and the Caledonia have Burns Suppers on the 25 Th sorry don't know the venues, Paphos and Limassol have branches, I am sure there are others

Usually a piper, in fact try getting in touch with the Cyprus Piper, he might be able to advise.

wee sleekit coorin timiris beastie
Author:  Peppermint [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:59 pm ]
Post subject: 
:offtopic I know but this is my favourite Burns poem:

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe -
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of valour, the country of worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

My grandad taught me this when I was a wee lassie.

P.
Author:  Aargent [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:07 pm ]
Post subject: 
Given all this discussion about Scotland’s greatest poet I was reminded about the country itself and when it was created:-

One day when God was creating the world he turned to St Peter and said :- I’ve decided to create this country that will have beautiful scenery, a mixture of majestic hills and fertile plains a spectacular rocky coast and gentle sandy beaches. It will have inland lochs and great rivers.

On the fertile plains will graze black cattle giving the best steaks in the world whilst the brown and white ones will give milk and cheese, on the hills will live a variety of game birds for food and raptors will soar above. Sheep will graze to provide succulent lamb.

The rivers will teem with finest salmon and trout, and the peaty water when processed with the local crops will produce a drink known as whisky which will be drunk the world over giving warmth and comfort to many. The lowland plains will grow crops to brew a beer called McEwans Heavy loved by millions.

Parts will grow raspberries, strawberries and other fruit to produce jams, and all types of vegetables and potatoes known for their taste.

Round the coast the seas will provide haddock, crabs, lobster and mussels and on the coastal plains pigs will be farmed for a cure of bacon.

It will be populated by inventive and intelligent people loved and respected the world over and I shall call it SCOTLAND.

Just a minute boss says St Peter, do you not think the your being a bit over generous to just one country ? All this good food, drink and scenery etc.

Ah! Yes says God - - - but just wait till you see the neighbours I’m giving them !
Author:  PARAMED [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:38 pm ]
Post subject:  WHA’S LIKE US?
DAMN FEW AND THEYRE A’ DEID

The average Englishman in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume – a shabby raincoat – patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.

En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.
At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dunfriesshire, Scotland.

He watches the news on T.V. an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland and hears an item about the U.S Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland. Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He has now been reminded to much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot – King James V1 – who authorised its translation.
He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.

He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with Penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland and given Choloform, an anaesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anaesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
Perphaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask –

WHA’S LIKE US?
Author:  Captain Fantastic [ Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:49 pm ]
Post subject: 
Steady on chaps - don't make me set this bloke on you:

Image

:wink:
Page 1 of 1 All times are UTC + 2 hours [ DST ]
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group
http://www.phpbb.com/