This year’s Anniversary Dinner (the 120^th for the Burns Howff Club) was one of the most enjoyable evenings of my life with all members charged up for a great night. As Frank Curran stated after he led us in “There was a Lad” we were in good voice and it appeared we were ready to let the area around the Globe, if not the rest of the world, know we were there.

I must thank everyone for the great support and encouragement that they gave me before and during the evening.

Lord George Robertson was a great ambassador for Burns with one of the most well structured Immortal Memories that I have had the pleasure to hear. He held the members of the Howff captivated and he is to be congratulated on a job well done and we are indeed proud to have him as an Honorary Member of the Club.

David Clapham was also on form and I thoroughly enjoyed his toast to the Lassies. My good friend Chris Lyon was as always polished in his address to the Drouthie Cronies and I am sure it was all true.

Alex Pool carried us back to the eighteenth century with a well crafted rendition of Tam O’ Shanter – not to be forgotten.

All our regular performers were outstanding – Frank Curran, Bill Welsh, John Caskie, Gordon Johnston and Dan Cook

I cannot leave this note without expressing my sincere thanks to David Smith (Hon Sec) and also David Baird (Treasurer) who are always there in the background with “lengthen’d sage advices'

For thus the Royal mandate ran,
When first the human race began:
“The social, friendly, honest man,

Whate’er he be
Tis he fulfils great Nature’s plan

And none but he.”

DRM