You may remember from last year, that it is a Bears Unlimited tradition to celebrate Burns Night, as we do have some Scots members. This year, as the great day fell at the start of the weekend, and we didn't have to get up for work in the morning, we were able to make much more of the occasion and have a party.
We invited our bear friendly friends Wade & Birgit round to join us. These are the 2 who gave Chelmer & Rocko such a great holiday last year. It was lovely to see them again.
For those of us who are not Scots and cannnot recite the Address to a Haggis word perfectly, Scottie Dog, Jock, found us an order of the supper on the internet, and printed it out, so we could join in at the appropriate time.
Here you see us listening intently to Jock addressing the haggis. Kanga and Roo, being from Australia, just couldn't work out what was going on and said the printed orders of the supper weren't much use as most of it was in Scots and they needed a translation. Don't worry they did get one and there were soon smiles on their originally bemused faces.
Before we tucked in, Jock proposed a toast to Robbie Burns and to Chef Oakley who had once again done us proud with a wonderful meal.
While the non Scots of us quite like haggis, especially when topped with Oakley's wonderful mushroom sauce, his piece de resistance was the pudding course - raspberry crowdies with whisky ice cream. Simply delicious and they just go to prove that he really should be on Masterchef.
It was well after 1.00 a.m. when we finally rolled into bed, which just goes to show how much we had all enjoyed ourselves.
Lots of love Jock & all at Bears Unlimited xxx
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