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NutmegCT

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Started today, 25 January 2009

https://www.homecomingscotland2009.com/default.html

Anyone else celebrating THE BIRTHDAY?

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Family is from Heddon on the wall, Northumberland...

That's very close to being Scottish :cheers:
 
This thread interests me.
WTN Said his family came from Heddon on the wall.
My mother was born and raised in Penrith, (she was a war bride)

I do know they never said they were Scottish.
But then, they never said they were English either. Just from the British isles.

Dave :savewave:

P.S. maybe this is why we all like these cars.In our subconscious, we are just going back to our roots.
 
There was a big gathering for Burns' birthday over at UVA (UVA is in Charlottesville, my home town), about a hundred or so gather every year for reading, etc. Not unusual for a college campus. On a side note, of course Edgar Allen Poe went to UVA (before he was thrown out for gambling), so there's a huge following at UVA for him, naturally.

I didn't buy any LBC because of my Scotch heritage (clan Keith, highlanders from the Aberdeen area), but somehow, it makes LBC ownership more interesting to me.

And, I'll bet Burns would have driven a Triumph if he'd had the chance, I'm sure of it! :yesnod:
 
14dna said:
I do know they never said they were Scottish.
But then, they never said they were English either.
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The Penrith area was part of the disputed territories back in the dark ages.

Technically...
You could claim Scottish OR British ancestry if you can trace your tree back that far
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We didn't make it to the toast on Sunday, too tired and pooped from Saturday night. We(my fiancee and I) were part of the organizing committee. Set up the stage decoration, made, printed and handed out the name tags, made and set up table decorations. My gal was the "poosey Nancy" during the "Toast to the Haggis" ceremony.

We had just over 210 folks in a large auditorium. Highland Dancers, Country Dancers, Singers, Poems to Robbie Burns, BagPiper and Bagpipe Band played. A performance by a Rabbie Burns stand-in. Good food, including the low fat Haggis recipe. Took about 4 hours from the time we opened the doors to the time we let everyone out. Then about an hour takedown time. So we was tuckered by the time we got home.
 
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