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*VIRTUAL BURNS NIGHT PARTY*

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Galen Fri 24-Jan-14 23:23:36

Git your kilts, gird yer loins!
Chariots, claymores, bagpipes, haggis, whisky at the ready!
Virtual party at Balmoral tomorrow night .

Whose coming?

Roderick Sat 25-Jan-14 20:40:55

Hello Roderick is here in his McIntyre kilt

Goose Sat 25-Jan-14 20:41:37

Wait for me…….

merlotgran Sat 25-Jan-14 20:42:18

I'm on my way, Galen. When DH found out I was firing up the broomstick to go north of the border he insisted on hooking up the trailer because he's ordered two sacks of Scotland's finest seed potatoes. This will (he says) save on delivery costs. hmm

Could have been worse.

#aberdeenangus

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 20:44:32

Rod I presume you're a Dunlop then?
They've been macking tyres for years!

rosesarered Sat 25-Jan-14 20:45:44

Galen think you have been hitting the bottle already?Macking?

Roderick Sat 25-Jan-14 20:46:34

Very good Galen

rosesarered Sat 25-Jan-14 20:47:07

Of course it could be a Scots thing 'ar ye no macking ma dinner woman?'

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 20:49:15

Quite! And it is laphroig I'm imbibing!

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 20:49:27

Slainte!

Roderick Sat 25-Jan-14 20:50:20

When do we start drinking the whisky?

merlotgran Sat 25-Jan-14 20:50:21

Phew! That was a rough ride.

"Good Evening, Your Maj *Galen. I love your tiara (curtseys)

May I partake of a blooming great G&T small sherry?

Goose Sat 25-Jan-14 20:53:09

Last minute change of plans means I can fly up to celebrate tonight. Bit of a rush and couldn't find a kilt but have dug up an old tartan tea towel that at I got last time I was in Glasgow, it's got a rather fetching picture of a piece of thistle and scotty dog on it, hope it'll pass muster? hmm

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 20:55:45

Goose I hope that's not all you're wearing?
Whisky here folks, choice of laphroig or glen morangie here!

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 20:57:14

Whisky jellies to the right vodka to the left (of course) wel'll keep the red flag flying high?

merlotgran Sat 25-Jan-14 20:58:45

My pc is playing up something rotten tonight.

I'm just shoving a bottle of malt up my kilt in case I disappear!!

AlieOxon Sat 25-Jan-14 20:58:46

Hey, that was NOT a soft landing. Ouch. I have a bruised um. No, bum.
I need some anaesthetic - Laphroig for preference!
OOH, thanks Galen.
..............Are we in that top room?

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 21:01:37

Nothing but the top for us!
Rod what are you doing with that corgi?
Down boy, no! Not you dog!

merlotgran Sat 25-Jan-14 21:10:25

Someone needs to let the corgis out. I thought it was the haggis I could smell. hmm

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 21:12:42

Corgis are welsh. Smell nothing like haggis scots you know.

Goose Sat 25-Jan-14 21:15:31

Galen I have tied the tea towel into a rather fetching turban, a la 50's style. I am also sporting my wrap around pinafore with the highland cattle picture on the front. All finished off with my red Doc McMartin boots -grin Is that a corgi or a sporran Rod's got there? hmm

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 21:17:55

I'm not sure, but it's a strange way to walk a corgi?

Goose Sat 25-Jan-14 21:18:47

…mine's a pint of Glen Morangie please...

AlieOxon Sat 25-Jan-14 21:19:52

When I have finished this bottle, can I dance a Highland Kling?

AlieOxon Sat 25-Jan-14 21:20:27

Fling, dammit. My typing gets more ad more dyslexic.

Galen Sat 25-Jan-14 21:25:01

Oi fink it should be a Klingon fling!
Someone grab a couple of those claymores off the wall and we'll be 'aving a sword dance! Come on folks!