Happy Birthday Robert

[Gonnagle]

Dear Romantics,

Just been reminded that today is Rabbie Burns birthday, I was going to put this on the "Music was my first Love" thread but just for today I think the great man deserves a thread of his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMmtBgMaF5I

14 kids by 4 different women, nae wonder the poor fella died so young.

“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.”

Gonnagle.

[Shaker]

Although coincidentally bought, I shall have my vegetarian haggis this evening 

[Sebastian Toe]

Although coincidentally bought, I shall have my vegetarian haggis this evening 

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.

[Nearly Sane]

It is, once more, that time of year when I can recount what happened when they translated the Address to the Haggis into German and then to English and the first lines came out as

'Here's to you, handsome large Kaiser of the sausage people!'

[bluehillside Retd.]

Gonners,

Dear Romantics,

Just been reminded that today is Rabbie Burns birthday, I was going to put this on the "Music was my first Love" thread but just for today I think the great man deserves a thread of his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMmtBgMaF5I

14 kids by 4 different women, nae wonder the poor fella died so young.

“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.”

As it happens it's my b'day too - I always think its kind of some of our Scottish friends to lay on parties just for me!

[Gonnagle]

Dear Blue,

Reincarnation of oor Rabbie, try yer hand at poetry, you may have a gift

Gonnagle,