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Rabbie Burns
The evening starts
Hosts - Ann and Andrew Dunsire
Alex Cooke talks about the charity
Entertainment
Andrew and Vicki sing for their supper
Jacqui and Alex Cooke, with Alex looking good
in the kilt
Ann receives bouquet from Alex at the closing of the supper
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Love Russia
Burns Supper - 30 January |
 An
excellent Burns Supper for 70 guests was organised in the Navaar
Hotel by Ann Dunsire, supporting the Love Russia charity.
The hotel laid on an excellent supper of cockaleekie soup, haggis,
creamed potatoes with bashed neeps, all piping hot, cranachan, and
coffee and tea to finish.
 Before
pronouncing The Selkirk Grace, Sandy Robertson, M.C., told the story
of the mother who had invited a large number of friends round for
dinner. On a sudden impulse she asked her 6 year-old daughter to say
the blessing. “I don’t know what to say, Mummy”, she lisped. “Yes
you do”, her mother insisted, “just say what your mummy says”. All
bowed their heads, and the wee girl said, “De-ar Lord, why did I
invite so many people round tonight?”
Alan Naylor, in his witty Toast to the Lassies, cited that bonnie
fechter, Dame Flora McLeod, and guided us through a continental
directive to Europeanise our language by designating our nouns as
either masculine or feminine; he thought, for example, that a
computer would be feminine, because just when you’ve made a
commitment to one, along comes a newer, less expensive model which
can accomplish even more tasks.
 Evelyn
Robertson, in her Reply on behalf of the Lassies, thought conversely
that a computer would be masculine, because you have to boot it to
get it started, and even then it can do only one thing at a time.
However, she did admit to a soft spot for Dame Flora, the patron
saint of margarine.
Peter Middleton gave us two sets on his bagpipes, demonstrating why
he should be considering auditioning for the Red Hot Chillie Pipers.
Andrew Dunsire played guitar Ralph McTell-like, to accompany Richie
Gillespie in a mellow rendering of “Ca’ the Yowes tae the Knowes”,
and Vicky Middleton in a melodic “My love is like a Red, Red Rose”,
and a bitter-sweet rendition of “Ae Fond Kiss”.
In his Immortal Memory, Sandy Robertson told the story of a man who
visited a Glasgow pub, to be told by the bartender that he knew he
was a stranger to the city. “How do you know?” the man asked, and
the barman replied, “I saw you take your hand off your pint”- this
to illustrate Burns’ contention
“ that sense an’ worth o’er a’ the earth shall bear the gree an’ a’
that”.
 Reminding
the guests that Burns was celebrated as the national bard, a
towering intellectual leader of the Scottish Enlightenment, a
sentient human being, and an icon for international brotherhood and
peace, Sandy introduced Alex Cooke, C.E.O. of Love Russia, who
presented a slide-show to illustrate how his organisation is able to
help orphaned, abandoned and disabled children in Russia to
successfully find their way in life.
For that while, Ann’s Supper had allowed us to extend a brotherly
and sisterly hand across the continents.
“For a’ that an’ a’ that,
it’s coming yet for a’ that
That man to man the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that”.
Thanks to all who could not be there for there generous donations.
For more information, email:
postmaster@loverussia.org
Or ask Andrew & Ann Dunsire, Love Russia’s Scottish Representatives.
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