Burns Supper is upcoming Jan. 25. Our close Scottish friends Aileen and Gordon Dickinson have invited us to join their Burns Supper again this year via Zoom, along with their best friends Elaine and ...
On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ which translates ...
“Should old acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind” — wait, what does that even mean? Every New Year’s Eve brings about many attempts at singing the one song everybody associates with the ...
We may take or leave Scotch plaid, Scotch whiskey, Scotch tape. But, love it or hate it, there's one wee bit of Scotland that can't be avoided. That's the annual orgy of sentiment that comes with a ...
"Auld Lang Syne" is one of the most iconic New Year's Eve songs out there but few, including Billy Crystal aka Harry Burns know the meaning behind the ode to days gone by. New Year's Eve is never ...
You know the drill. As the New Year’s Eve countdown draws to a close, the ball drops, and, if we’re lucky, we finish our midnight kiss. Next up: someone inevitably queues up the familiar tune of “Auld ...
the number one thing is just supervise especially your Children when they're handling fireworks, make sure you don't use black market fireworks and follow the safety precautions with New Year's Eve ...
Singing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Year's Eve is a tradition, but not everyone knows what those words mean and where the song came from. Scottish poet Robert Burns is credited with writing the lyrics in ...
You might know it as the song that people sing – or at least try to sing – every year on New Year's Eve. Once the clock strikes midnight and the calendar flips to 2022, people around the world will ...
"Auld Lang Syne" is as ubiquitous on New Year's Eve as booze and counting down from 10. But when the song plays over the weekend, a lot of folks won't even know what it means. The tune became part of ...