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curiouswombatLast night was our rather belated Burns' Night Supper. It doesn't seem as if it is a year since I wrote about last year's - but it is!
Anyone who is unfamiliar with the traditions of a Burns' night Supper, and is interested,
Click here to read my description from last year
S2C was at work, and so couldn't come, but Daughter-dear decided that she would like to come and see what it was all about, which was lovely. My sister was doing one of the speeches, and under the cut are pics of me with D-d, and me with sister - all in our posh togs!
My daughter really does have such pale translucent skin - it goes with her eye and hair colour - and I am not wearing dark make-up - I have got much more of an olive complexion than her - but somehow the lighting accentuates the differences here - not to mention the chins! On the other hand it is the first picture on which she has smiled for 18 months, whilst she had her braces on, so a noteworthy picture!
The menu for this year was
Cullen Skink - a creamy soup with potato and smoked haddock.
Haggis on tatties and neeps.
Steak on a potato cake with roast root vegetables and a whisky gravy.
Chocolate and Drambuie Cream Basket - a dark chocolate case half-filled with blackcurrants and raspberries, then topped up and off with whipped cream laced with drambuie.
Coffee with chocolate dipped petticoat shortbread.
The calorie count was probably into 6 figures!!
This picture shows me with my baby sister -
I love that dress of mine - the roses are velvet, whilst the rest of the dress is a very heavy voile, and so the roses show differently depending on how the light catches them. I went through three or four alternative outfits, but went back to it, it is so comfortable.
Also - I've been busy these last few days - what with going out last night, and doing a lot of housework today - and so although I have been through my FL, I haven't left as many comments as usual!
Anyone who is unfamiliar with the traditions of a Burns' night Supper, and is interested,
Click here to read my description from last year
S2C was at work, and so couldn't come, but Daughter-dear decided that she would like to come and see what it was all about, which was lovely. My sister was doing one of the speeches, and under the cut are pics of me with D-d, and me with sister - all in our posh togs!
My daughter really does have such pale translucent skin - it goes with her eye and hair colour - and I am not wearing dark make-up - I have got much more of an olive complexion than her - but somehow the lighting accentuates the differences here - not to mention the chins! On the other hand it is the first picture on which she has smiled for 18 months, whilst she had her braces on, so a noteworthy picture!
The menu for this year was
Cullen Skink - a creamy soup with potato and smoked haddock.
Haggis on tatties and neeps.
Steak on a potato cake with roast root vegetables and a whisky gravy.
Chocolate and Drambuie Cream Basket - a dark chocolate case half-filled with blackcurrants and raspberries, then topped up and off with whipped cream laced with drambuie.
Coffee with chocolate dipped petticoat shortbread.
The calorie count was probably into 6 figures!!
This picture shows me with my baby sister -
I love that dress of mine - the roses are velvet, whilst the rest of the dress is a very heavy voile, and so the roses show differently depending on how the light catches them. I went through three or four alternative outfits, but went back to it, it is so comfortable.
Also - I've been busy these last few days - what with going out last night, and doing a lot of housework today - and so although I have been through my FL, I haven't left as many comments as usual!
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Date: 29/01/2006 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 29/01/2006 11:33 pm (UTC)I'm sure however your evening went well and no haggis accidents.
Neeps are turnips yes?
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Date: 29/01/2006 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 29/01/2006 11:48 pm (UTC)Do you enjoy haggis?
I love the photographs! Your dress is quite pretty and so are you! You daughter is beautiful, as always!
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Date: 30/01/2006 12:03 am (UTC)Tatties and neeps - potato and turnip!
Actually haggis is nice - it is one of those foods with a fearful reputation, but is actually just a highly spiced mixture of lamb and oatmeal. They spoon it out of the outer pudding skin, and it always reminds me rather of the traditional stuffings used with poultry.
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Date: 30/01/2006 12:33 am (UTC)One tiny "meepish" American thought: in the New World, a skink is a lizard.
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Date: 30/01/2006 12:41 am (UTC)I have no idea why smoked fish soup is called cullen skink - it is a sort of off-putting name!
Can't see us ever getting him into a kilt, somehow!
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Date: 30/01/2006 01:20 am (UTC)thank you for sharing this.
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Date: 30/01/2006 09:45 am (UTC)D-d's earrings are stunning aren't they? I don't have a long enough neck - they'd drag on my shoulders!
And yes - the pudding was to die for!
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Date: 30/01/2006 09:48 am (UTC)I love the dress dearly - especially because it was half-price, or possibly less, in a sale a couple of years ago.
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Date: 30/01/2006 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 30/01/2006 09:54 am (UTC)I know the feeling!
you should be very proud that you have an offspring who's lovely inside and out.
Thank you - as you'll know, having similar aged ones, daughters of that age can be good fun.
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Date: 30/01/2006 10:21 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 30/01/2006 02:46 pm (UTC)Robert Burns is a favorite poet of mine and I think this tradition is wonderful.
Kathleen
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Date: 30/01/2006 03:50 pm (UTC)Shame about the kilts - I think there's something about a man in a kilt ...
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Date: 30/01/2006 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 30/01/2006 05:38 pm (UTC)I love my dress dearly - it is amazingly comfortable as well.
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Date: 30/01/2006 07:18 pm (UTC)Kathleen
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Date: 30/01/2006 10:04 pm (UTC)devil teens
Date: 31/01/2006 06:03 am (UTC)Kind of made me nostalgic for the days when my brother and I fought hard to kill each other ...