A while a go I picked up a Raleigh Impulse step through bicycle with the idea that I would fix it up.  I haven’t so I am now giving away.

That came with some parts that are also free to a good home.

While clearing out my shed I also found the following…

A bottle opener, bike tool thingy, some pedals, a shimano hub, 38x700c Marathon plus tyre, 2 bike racks, and ladies saddle.

Last weekend I was out a Burns Supper.  I am not normally the most cultured of people, I like the idea of Burns Night, but the invocation quite often fails to deliver.

Part of me thinks that Burns suffers from some of the same problems as Shakespeare.  People take it all far too seriously.
Both were quite often playing for the cheep seats and being more than a little rude.

So as I was sat listening to an operatic singer perform a song that really wasn’t designed to be sung in that style I thought to myself..

In one hundred years time will we have the same happen to the works and lives of the Proclaimers?

Could I imagine the kind of over worked academic speech that you regularly get at a Burns supper discussing, “Letter from America” and quoting the places mentioned and why they were chosen.

As a result of this I imagined if you retained the structure of Burns Night and replaced it with the Proclaimers.
You would start with a haggis dinner, and still do Robbie’s address, then do the speeches, the immortal memory, the toast to the lasses, the response from the lasses, and the thanks to the participants.
You would finish with everyone stood in a circle and sing not “Auld Lang Syne”, but “I would walk 500 miles”.

As traditions go, this one sounds lots of fun and one that I will be starting..

Expanding this idea slightly further, there are many other brilliant people who come from Scotland, and I think it’s only fair that we make a point to include as many of them as we can too..
Macintosh design place mats and decorations for example.