20 YEARS AGO "Fair fa'your honest,
sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'race!" Dumfries Burns Club chairman, Arthur Jardine , is pictured below right in full flow addressing the haggis at the club's annual supper in the Cairndale Hotel.
Sonsie faces The girls played while the haggis was brought in
As here, its oriental fruit and candied ginger elements match the spiciness of haggis well but it still has sufficient density and nectarine influenced, creamy substance to handle Old
Sonsie Face's unique texture.
(33) The taint of vulgarity that hangs around proverbs moves him to rid his collection of 'all superstitious Observations of Times, which the Vulgar call
sonsie or unsonsie', 'all proverbial imprecations with which the Scots abound', obscenities, impieties, and 'Scottish proverbial phrases' since including them 'would have been to have transcribed a great share of the language used in that Country'.
The search for the killer, with so many people on the list of possible suspects, is the bulk of the remainder of the book, but side plots, such as the gorgeous, sexy blonde to whom Hamish had been engaged, and Hamish's pets, his dog, Lugs, and his missing cat,
Sonsie, are as engaging as the mystery.
Then, as the guests get steadily hungrier, someone recites the Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns, which begins: "Fair fa' your honest,
sonsie face, "Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!" And so it goes on for eight verses before concluding with a whisky toast.
FRIENDS OF SCOTTISH OPERA Keith Bruce 'Fareweel
sonsie dame - 30 years watching opera in Scotland shape up'.
His opening line "fair fa' your honest
sonsie face" contains two words I don't know, and quite honestly (and probably sonsiely too), I can't be bothered to look them up as I know there will be plenty more to follow.
you in the mood for Saturday night here's that opening verse of Burns's famous ode to the haggis: "Fair fa' your honest,
sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddingrace!
Wellington, Sept 9 ( ANI ): A woman named, Janeen
Sonsie, paid 35 American dollars to snuggle with a group of strangers on a chilly Saturday night last month.
SELECTIONS KEMPTON: 4.25 Very Well Red, 4.55 Spinning Ridge, 5.25 COMMUNITY (NAP), 5.55 Mayan Flight, 6.25
Sonsie Lass, 6.55 Nezhenka, 7.25 Snow Ridge.