I'm glad the funeral went well (although all the way through I would have been thinking that Auntie Joyce would not have appreciated all the trouble you all went to!).
Auntie Joyce would not have been happy that we printed hymn sheets (when it was Grandma & Granddad's funerals we just had a local hymn book), and would not have been impressed that we walked across the cemetery ... what a waste of time!
But, we were happy ... and as I have said all along it was for Dad
I just buy a jar of crunchy. I don't bother with making it and I know no one who does LOL. What is BURNS NIGHT? Have I been stopped at customs? Yes, and I think it was racist. We were coming into the UK and I remember they stopped us, and the Hindu family, and all the whites got to go through without being stopped. So yeah I was pissed about that. I like chocolate cake but I'd prefer a burger LOL . Long ago I did like Legos and tried to build a castle with it :P
In the UK we have 4 saint's days ... St George, St David, St Andrew & St Patrick ... however Scotland have 2 real "party" days ... New Year's Eve is one, and Burns is the other. It is on the birth date of Robert Burns the Scottish poet, and you are meant to celebrate the food "haggis" as he wrote a poem celebrating it, which you are meant to quote (I am glad I am not Scottish)
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 worthy o’ 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 you up wi ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin, rich! .... etc The full poem is here
Very interesting. Walter is English and Scotch-Irish. And yes LOL I what haggis is :P. He visited Ireland but not Scotland. I never fully understood the term Scotch Irish. I know many settled in Appalachia over here in the states and you can tell from the dancing and fiddling and some cultural aspects of that...but I am assuming Scotch Irish meant Scots living and working in Northern Ireland many generations ago?
It's funny hearing the "Scots-Irish" phrase, as not something we really have over here. Both countries have countries and clans that spread back over centuries ... so there is a lot of rivalry ... they even spell Whiskey/Whisky differently!
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Auntie Joyce would not have been happy that we printed hymn sheets (when it was Grandma & Granddad's funerals we just had a local hymn book), and would not have been impressed that we walked across the cemetery ... what a waste of time!
But, we were happy ... and as I have said all along it was for Dad
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In the UK we have 4 saint's days ... St George, St David, St Andrew & St Patrick ... however Scotland have 2 real "party" days ... New Year's Eve is one, and Burns is the other. It is on the birth date of Robert Burns the Scottish poet, and you are meant to celebrate the food "haggis" as he wrote a poem celebrating it, which you are meant to quote (I am glad I am not Scottish)
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 worthy o’ 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 you up wi ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich! .... etc
The full poem is here
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He visited Ireland but not Scotland. I never fully understood the term Scotch Irish. I know many settled in Appalachia over here in the states and you can tell from the dancing and fiddling and some cultural aspects of that...but I am assuming Scotch Irish meant Scots living and working in Northern Ireland many generations ago?
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