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Where To Celebrate Burns Night In London
With pipers, haggis, toasts, poems and ceilidhs
Where To Celebrate Burns Night In London 2011
With Twelfth night past it’s time to dig out your tartan, invest in some good whisky and sweat out the festive excess with a bout of ceilidh dancing. Here’s a selection of Burns Night events around London.
New Tartan For London Revealed
The race to design a tartan for London has been won. This effort by James Heafield beat off 89 other entries in a competition organised by Kings Place and The Scottish Tartans Authority . While pleasing on the eye, his pattern does to the boundaries …
Where To Celebrate Burns Night In London
The table decoration no self-respecting Scot should have Burns Night arrives to blow away the winter blues on 25th January. That’s officially and scientifically the most depressing day of the year so hoorah for this Scotch celebration that comes full of hearty, steaming, nary a …
Create A Tartan For London
Image by garryknight used under a Creative Commons licence What have New York, the FBI and 34 US states got that nowhere in England has? To avoid any unfortunate gags we’ll tell you: their own tartans. This might have something to do with England and …
Burns Night: Where To Do The Haggis Thing
Image by Buckaroo Kid from the Londonist Flickr pool It is Burns’ night this Sunday, which means haggis, whisky and many recitations of Rabbie Burns’ Address to a Haggis. Here’s how to do it, the traditional way, without getting the sleeper train to Edinburgh for …
“High Speed Two” For London And Glasgow?
London to Scotland in under three hours? Well you could go Ryanair and enjoy the bum-rush for seats at Stansted, the teeth-gritting discomfort, and the faint but palpable sense of guilt at your carbon footprint. Or you could jump in Jeremy Clarkson’s motor and see …
