The Forester's Burns Dinner ....

26th January 2018 (Friday) .... 10.30   We have a nice morning, though it has turned cloudier in the past hour.     I don’t have a ‘plan’ so far today, but I might go for a daunder, probably downtown, later.    I’m looking forward going to “The Forester’s” for dinner tonight;   good food and a nice blether is always relaxing.   I
The Forester's, Framfield.
know I’m not travelling until Wednesday, but I start to get ‘uptight’ ..... probably as soon as I know when I’m travelling.    Must ‘go’ .... “slight flap on” .... I need a cuppa.
23.30     Janice, Janette, Michael have just got back from the Forester’s where we had partaken of Dinner.    The girls had normal food;  Michael and I had Cock-a-Leekie soup, then Haggis with trimmings.    One of the trimmings was gravy:  gravy with a distinctive flavour.   I don’t know the recipe for this gravy, but I would keep it out of North Korean hands;   the moon was well within reach if this was used as rocket fuel.   We finished off with Cranachan.    It was a very enjoyable meal, but awfie filling;   maybe that’s because we emptied the gravy boat!

The 'Girls' (Janette and Janice) ... and they didn't touch the gravy!
From the Forester’s we went to ‘The Bull’ in Newick village;  not far from Uckfield.    ‘The Bull’  held their Burn’s Supper last night... and by all accounts, and as viewed on YouTube... it, the Burns Supper, had been a great success, with pipes and drums etc.....  but no Burns poetry.    I had a half pint in The Forester’s, followed by another in ‘The Bull’.    Puku, bless his flabbiness, is contented tonight!

When we were leaving The Bull frost was beginning to settle on car windscreens!
No ‘plan’ for tomorrow, apart from the “Black Boy’s” Burns Supper in the evening;   the fourth and final Burn’s Supper for ‘The Boy’ this year.


Popular posts from this blog

Pittenweem swimming pool....

Image
20th September 2017 (Wednesday) ... 13.30    When I went along to Elie for the papers this morning, I got slightly diverted and ended up along at the old Pittenweem tidal swimming pool.  Pittenweem  swimming pool.    Unfortunately we have a, mostly overcast, with occasional spits and spots of rain, morning.     I must go back on a ‘bright and  sunny’ morning... this will show up the different colours of the sandstone rocks etc better.    It is an interesting spot, and would have been busy in the 1930’s , 40’s and 50’s.        20.30     My day has been spent pottering around Ivy... including baking a batch of wholemeal scones.    Note to self .... I must remember to freeze some of them this time;  rather than feed them to Blob and his pals.     It has been a grey and sometimes damp day;  not a day for bumbling about outside.    The ‘cold’ that I had last night didn’t come to anything.... I must have been tired after Solid infrastructure at Pittenweem swimming pool. my wand
Read more

Quiet morning ....

Image
 5th October 2023 (Thursday)     09.30.... The crock pot has been fired up with a batch o’ Scotch Broth, George’s bucket has been put out for tomorrow morning....I have had breakfast, and now on my third cuppa of the morning; hoping for a stress free day.   The past two days were not stress free. Yesterday began really well.... I got the car insurance sorted, and was   settling down to check FB.    I saw a photograph captioned ‘Seal on a floe .... or was it?’   Being inquisitive I ‘clicked’ on it;   and that   was it .... flashing warnings all over the computer screen.     I’d been hacked.   A small window appeared purporting to be from Microsoft Security so I clicked on that and got an 0800 number to phone;    which I did and was answered by an Indian.     That’s when I should have pulled the plug on the computer.    However, h e as very   plausible so I began to follow his instructions for a few minutes... then  began to get suspicious;   especially when he began to insist that I
Read more

Cold and overcast ....

Image
18th April 2024 (Thursday)    08.00 .... The Fife Weather cams are all showing an overcast sky:  rain hasn't reached Fife so far, but is expected to arrive by mid morrrrrrrning...."light rain and a fresh Westerly breeze" being the forecast until later in the afternoon;  but we're going to end the day with a bonnie evening.  Hmmmmm .... I don't think I'll be painting any bits of the shed today; and that was my project to take my mind off the car.   Computer stuff it will have to be:  I'm actually in a writing mood so this might not be a wasted day. 09.00   Forget the heap oops... car (it's in the 'bad car' corner);  I'm excited because the workmen are here to begin work on the patio. They arrived a wee while ago;  unfortunately spits and spots o' rain arrived at the same time and, if  the rain is heavy and prolonged they won't be able to do much.   Showers are OK but not prolonged rain.  Must 'go' got to have another cuppa
Read more