Haggis Hunt

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:43 am

sheilajim wrote:Wow! Did they ever remove the Xmas lights fast from Glasgow.

Well they are back up again this morning - whatever happebned to them earlier. In fact they don't usually take the ones round the square down ! they just switch them off - still hanging up there in July!

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:31 am

you know you have a bad case of haggis hunting disease when you see the golf on the tv and look to see if there's a haggis on the course

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:16 pm

Glasgow still has the lights hanging up there in July

And here I was blaming the poor Haggi.
I guess that they just must have turned them off when I looked yesterday! Do they take the Christmas tree down?

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:07 pm

sheilajim wrote:Glasgow still has the lights hanging up there in July And here I was blaming the poor Haggi.
I guess that they just must have turned them off when I looked yesterday! Do they take the Christmas tree down?

Keep watching !!!
I think the Corpi Guys [Glasgow Corporation Workers, as they used to be] are working on the Square today ...

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:11 pm

Looks like "the Polis" are pickin' someone up in the Royal Mile....maybe the Haggii have been misbehavin'

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:12 pm

Lots of busy bees around today:

Glasgow's George Square has an army of trucks, tractors and cranes - the the decorations must be departing

Leicester Square, London has a big lorry unloading outside the Odeon and crash barriers arrived too, is there a Premiere due?
we 'saw'

the stars arrive for 'Australia' one night, though which wee blob was Kidman I couldn't say

Edinburgh a cheeky gull peeked into the camera

kenspeckle · Post by **kenspeckle** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:02 am

Hi Wilma I saw that Gull and have posted photo of it on the Scotsman Haggis Hunt facebook with some other ones that I have seen

its been snowing or heavy frost this morning at Gleneagles
http://www.facebook.com/pages/scotsmanc ... 5905693124
Lesley in Tasmania

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:27 pm

Sheila the tree came down in George Square this morning

and crowds are gathering in Leicester Square, supposed to be the London Premiere of Will Smith's film Seven Pounds - I wonder if any of us will spot him?

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:04 pm

Hi Wilma

Like you, I noticed yeserdaythat the tree had come down. I had been wondering if it was a live tree.

This haggis hunt has made me think of something else.

Does anybody really eat haggis? My mother and her sister were born and raised in Scotland. They came to Canada as adults. Neither of them ever cooked haggis. Both said that detested the dish.

Does that make them not true Scots.

I don't think that I would like it either. From the recipes that are given, it sounds like haggis is some kind of big sausage. I am one of those people that don't like sausages.

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:34 pm

Yes we do really eat Haggis !

And it is delicious...

I do in fact have one sitting in the freezer at the moment and will make it as a special treat next week. Next Friday 2 of my sons and I will have a dish [with Tatties and Neeps and Irn Bru] at the school's Burns Afternoon.

Our whole family are very fond of the dish, and my sister had it at her wedding. Our old dog used to practically sit or your knee when we were eating it, in the hope that she'd get just a taste

This might not go down well with the purists but it's delicious cooked with chicken.