Burns Supper 2004
| Last
year the Carnethy Burns Supper was a rather cramped affair with about
10 people huddled
in a large orange bag on Craiglockhart Hill. This year we had the spacious
and warm confines of the Pritchards’ new conservatory at our
disposal and this enticed several excellent
renditions from those present. |
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Willie
Gibson addressed the haggis - using his acting skills
to help our 'foreign' guests understand
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Food and drink were consumed - included
seconds and some thirds! |
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Olly Stephenson started the main proceedings with the Immortal Memory describing how Burns was obviously a hill runner long before Carnethy HRC was formed. Despite being a newcomer to Scotland (and just a youngster in Carnethy terms) Olly gave a polished and fluent delivery. | |
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Robin Haynes was something of the dark horse with his toast to the lassies. His tale about the visit of an MSP to the ‘Burns unit’ of the RIE and the men’s talk in the KB changing rooms were delivered tongue in cheek. It looked as though he enjoyed giving the speech as much as we enjoyed listening to it. | |
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Kate Friend had the onerous task of Replying but set about it in a different way from the boys with an ingeneous poem about her impression of the lads in the club (Observing…the Carnethy laddies is reproduced below). | |
With thanks tonight to our handsome Robin Who led a run from KB and left the girls sobbin I thought he was cheery pleasant an kind But he ran off and left all us girlies behind There’s smiling Andy, our laddies' Cap-tin organized the Hodgsons for the girlies to win, With his pals he ventured up Ben Loyal alas we didnae see John Coyle. Remember the wedding in Monymusk when Stevie got hitched and danced till dusk. Poems, song and the egg and spoon O’happy memories for all o’the second of June. Our tall man Nick, always dressed in black he edits Carnethy newsletter, and gets lots o’slack A faithful marshal, up Glamaig he run “ just doing m’job, all part of the fun |
” Now there’s
web master Willie, our Mars Bar chap |
That lean and mean, vet Adam Ward |
| The floor
was then open to those brave or foolish enough to expose their talents
and Moira Stewart was first to surprise us with a song.
Ailish Nimmo danced
the Fling and Jamie Thin recited the Battle of Roslin
poem on the Carnethy 5 T-shirts, substituting Carnethy and Shettleston
names in the relevant spots!
Colin Pritchard read his favourite bits of Norman McCaig poems referring
to the hills and Willie Gibson recited a poem dedicated to the Mars Bar
(see
below). Mark James gave us some more songs - we joined in the
choruses and Hilary Spenceley performed another near word-perfect rendition
of Tam o'Shanter - an Oscar-winning performance. |
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Fair fa your honest sonsie Bar |
) Mark James |
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) Robin Haynes |
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) Moira Stewart |
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) Willie Gibson |
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Rabbie Burns would have been proud of the proceedings. Thanks to the Pritchards for being such excellent hosts.