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2007 Burn's Supper
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Farwaniya,
Kuwait
Thursday, February 8, 2007
all photos courtesy of John & Alice Weston, unless otherwise noted. (Updated 2007/02/09)
The Afternoon before the Main Event....
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Functions like this don't
just happen. There's a lot of work put in by just a few people to
make them successful Wendy and Alice work on the seat placements, and Mike and Sam discuss other details. |
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| Talal and Keith Armstrong | Philip Weston, John Weston, and Bader Mohammed talk to Dave King |
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| Lyndon Baines, Stewart King, and Philip Weston | Bader tries to play his practice chanter while puffing.... |
Jessica King and accompanist practice her performance.
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| Jane and Wendy collect tickets for the special raffle | Alice and Jane |
The evening's festivities begin....
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| Mike Parkin and Helen Reid | Pia and Andrew Duncan |
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| John and Carol Dyson |
Piping in the Top Table
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| Keith does the honors this year | Diraar Al-Ghanim, Mike Ling and Sybella Laing |
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| Kuwait Caledonian's Chieftain Mike Ling give some announcements. | Mistress of Ceremonies - Sheila |
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| Anne Armstrong does the Selkirk Grace. | John Carmichael apologises for his lack of "National Dress". The airline lost his baggage... again. The second time this has happened coming to Kuwait in a year. |
Piping in the Haggis,
and the Address to the Haggis
Lyndon pipes in the Haggis
John Carmichael does the "Address to the Haggis"...
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Toasting the Haggis...
Then Came the Dinner....
Jessica King Sings three Burn's Songs
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Kuwait Caledonian's Pipe Band Performance
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Tonight's program:
March In: Murdo's Wedding, Scotland the Brave, Rowan Tree
Flower of Scotland, Green Hills of Tyrol, Battle's Over
A Man's A Man For A'That, My Love She's But a Lassie Yet
Mingulay Boat Song, Skye Boat Song
March Out: Meeting of the Waters, Johnny Scorbie
Bader marks the end of another successful performance....
The Immortal
Memory
given by John Carmichael
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Toasts to the Lassies and Laddies
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| Vice Chieftain Peter Nichols does the toast to the Lassies | Allison Pyper toast the Laddies in response. |
Our "Special Raffle"
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Dancing to John Carmichael's Accordion....
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The maestro himself....
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Join us at our
Spring Ceilidh on May 31, 2007
- again and the Crowne Plaza Hotel
The local Kuwait Times gave us a full page spread in the paper a few days later.
Right click and save target as" to save the 1 MB jpg scan of the page.
We even made it to the front page header of the paper that day.
for high quality images, e-mail webmaster: John
e-mail: jrwestonnet@Hotmail.com