2019 Burns Supper
This year we are asking all guests if they would consider bringing something for the Fakirk Food Bank. We will collect
donations on the evening and deliver them to the foodbank next day.
Urgently required just now is: biscuits, tinned potatoes, long life fruit juice, UHT milk (1 titre), breakfast cereals.
Our annual Burns Supper will be held on Friday 18th January 2019 in Lodge St John (16), Graham's Road, Falkirk, with guests assembling from 18:30 for a promp
start at 19:00
Performing on the evening will be :-
Principle Guest / Immortal Memory:
David Sibbald
Toast to the Lassies:
Tom Paterson
Reply from the Lassies:
Dr John Leonard
Tam O'Shanter:
Hugh Farrell
Poosie Nancy / Catering:
Ann McNaughton
Address to the Haggis:
Frank McGarry
Travelling Minstrels:
Piper:
Tommy Couper
Recitations:
Frank McGarry
Fiddlers:
Sandy Harvey and John Johnstone
Chanter and Jester:
Bobby Wright and Eddie Skelly
Tickets for the 2019 supper are held at last year's price of £25 and include a specially commissioned lapel badge. Tickets are available now from the contacts
below:-
President: Johnny Martin
Vice president: Tom Hart
Secretary: Andy Cafferty
Treasurer: Willie Duff
Raffle Co-ordinator: Stan Dulemba
Could committee please note we will be setting up from 12:30 on the day of the supper.
Club Outings
ELLISLAND FARM
Saturday 29th September 2018.
Nine members and three guests visited Robert Burns farm at Ellisland on a lovely sunny Saturday afternoon. They were met by the curator Stuart Cochrane who
gave the company a comprehensive account of Burns's time at Ellisland. After attending a film presentation the attendees had a few hours to wander around the farm and outbuildings in the afternoon sunshine.
In the evening everyone sat down in the farmhouse kitchen to a delicious, well presented and served supper. The "haggis" was "piped" in on harmonica much to
the amusement of the diners as it was a knitted version complete with legs, eyes and a smile. The address to the haggis was given by Dougie Smith and the Selkirk Grace by Tom Hart. After a leasurly
supper of haggis, neeps and tatties, steak pie, tatties and veg, ruhbarb crumble and custard, cheese and biscuits and tea and coffee it was fair to say "all their well swollen bellies by-and-by
were bent like drums" After the meal Dougie gave a stirring rendition of Tam O' Shanter, Bobby Wright treated the company to some favourite Burns songs and the company joined in later with jokes
and rhymes. Tom rounded off the evening with a vote of thanks to the company and to the "Friends of Ellisland".
As the Club headed home everyone agreed that it was a fantastic unique experience to sit down to supper in the very kitchen that the bard himself ate
supper.
Check out the gallery for some more memories of the club visit to Ellisland Farm.
2019 Burns Supper
This year we are asking all guests if they would consider bringing something for the Fakirk Food Bank. We will collect
donations on the evening and deliver them to the foodbank next day.
Urgently required just now is: biscuits, tinned potatoes, long life fruit juice, UHT milk (1 titre), breakfast cereals.
Our annual Burns Supper will be held on Friday 18th January 2019 in Lodge St John (16), Graham's Road, Falkirk, with guests assembling from 18:30 for a promp
start at 19:00
Performing on the evening will be :-
Principle Guest / Immortal Memory:
David Sibbald
Toast to the Lassies:
Tom Paterson
Reply from the Lassies:
Dr John Leonard
Tam O'Shanter:
Hugh Farrell
Poosie Nancy / Catering:
Ann McNaughton
Address to the Haggis:
Frank McGarry
Travelling Minstrels:
Piper:
Tommy Couper
Recitations:
Frank McGarry
Fiddlers:
Sandy Harvey and John Johnstone
Chanter and Jester:
Bobby Wright and Eddie Skelly
Tickets for the 2019 supper are held at last year's price of £25 and include a specially commissioned lapel badge. Tickets are available now from the contacts
below:-
President: Johnny Martin
Vice president: Tom Hart
Secretary: Andy Cafferty
Treasurer: Willie Duff
Raffle Co-ordinator: Stan Dulemba
Could committee please note we will be setting up from 12:30 on the day of the supper.
Club Outings
ELLISLAND FARM
Saturday 29th September 2018.
Nine members and three guests visited Robert Burns farm at Ellisland on a lovely sunny Saturday afternoon. They were met by the curator Stuart Cochrane who
gave the company a comprehensive account of Burns's time at Ellisland. After attending a film presentation the attendees had a few hours to wander around the farm and outbuildings in the afternoon sunshine.
In the evening everyone sat down in the farmhouse kitchen to a delicious, well presented and served supper. The "haggis" was "piped" in on harmonica much to
the amusement of the diners as it was a knitted version complete with legs, eyes and a smile. The address to the haggis was given by Dougie Smith and the Selkirk Grace by Tom Hart. After a leasurly
supper of haggis, neeps and tatties, steak pie, tatties and veg, ruhbarb crumble and custard, cheese and biscuits and tea and coffee it was fair to say "all their well swollen bellies by-and-by
were bent like drums" After the meal Dougie gave a stirring rendition of Tam O' Shanter, Bobby Wright treated the company to some favourite Burns songs and the company joined in later with jokes
and rhymes. Tom rounded off the evening with a vote of thanks to the company and to the "Friends of Ellisland".
As the Club headed home everyone agreed that it was a fantastic unique experience to sit down to supper in the very kitchen that the bard himself ate
supper.
Check out the gallery for some more memories of the club visit to Ellisland Farm.
2019 Burns Supper
This year we are asking all guests if they would consider bringing something for the Fakirk Food Bank. We will collect
donations on the evening and deliver them to the foodbank next day.
Urgently required just now is: biscuits, tinned potatoes, long life fruit juice, UHT milk (1 titre), breakfast cereals.
Our annual Burns Supper will be held on Friday 18th January 2019 in Lodge St John (16), Graham's Road, Falkirk, with guests assembling from 18:30 for a promp
start at 19:00
Performing on the evening will be :-
Principle Guest / Immortal Memory:
David Sibbald
Toast to the Lassies:
Tom Paterson
Reply from the Lassies:
Dr John Leonard
Tam O'Shanter:
Hugh Farrell
Poosie Nancy / Catering:
Ann McNaughton
Address to the Haggis:
Frank McGarry
Travelling Minstrels:
Piper:
Tommy Couper
Recitations:
Frank McGarry
Fiddlers:
Sandy Harvey and John Johnstone
Chanter and Jester:
Bobby Wright and Eddie Skelly
Tickets for the 2019 supper are held at last year's price of £25 and include a specially commissioned lapel badge. Tickets are available now from the contacts
below:-
President: Johnny Martin
Vice president: Tom Hart
Secretary: Andy Cafferty
Treasurer: Willie Duff
Raffle Co-ordinator: Stan Dulemba
Could committee please note we will be setting up from 12:30 on the day of the supper.
Club Outings
ELLISLAND FARM
Saturday 29th September 2018.
Nine members and three guests visited Robert Burns farm at Ellisland on a lovely sunny Saturday afternoon. They were met by the curator Stuart Cochrane who
gave the company a comprehensive account of Burns's time at Ellisland. After attending a film presentation the attendees had a few hours to wander around the farm and outbuildings in the afternoon sunshine.
In the evening everyone sat down in the farmhouse kitchen to a delicious, well presented and served supper. The "haggis" was "piped" in on harmonica much to
the amusement of the diners as it was a knitted version complete with legs, eyes and a smile. The address to the haggis was given by Dougie Smith and the Selkirk Grace by Tom Hart. After a leasurly
supper of haggis, neeps and tatties, steak pie, tatties and veg, ruhbarb crumble and custard, cheese and biscuits and tea and coffee it was fair to say "all their well swollen bellies by-and-by
were bent like drums" After the meal Dougie gave a stirring rendition of Tam O' Shanter, Bobby Wright treated the company to some favourite Burns songs and the company joined in later with jokes
and rhymes. Tom rounded off the evening with a vote of thanks to the company and to the "Friends of Ellisland".
As the Club headed home everyone agreed that it was a fantastic unique experience to sit down to supper in the very kitchen that the bard himself ate
supper.
Check out the gallery for some more memories of the club visit to Ellisland Farm.
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