Friday Night was Burns Night

Friday night was Burns night.
All Scottish school children have spent the last few weeks learning poems in the native Scots tongue, some are Burns poems and some are not, and on Friday they will have recited their poem to the rest of their class. They don’t only have to learn the words; they need to learn the correct dialect and the meaning of all the unfamiliar words. Burns night is celebrated all over the world, traditionally a Burns night supper is Haggis, tatties (mashed Potatoes)  and neeps ( mashed Swede) and a Burns night celebration takes the form of a Scottish  Ceilidh ( pronounced Kay-Lee)
Ceilidhs are great fun, good explanation of them here
All the information on Ceilidh here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9ilidh

All the information you could ever want on Burns here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns




bit of an impromptu ceilidh going on here





example of a Scottish poem, Lament for a lost dinner ticket by Margaret Hamilton





Burns to music
 


And an old favourite of mine

Runrig