Next Thursday, Scotland will celebrate Burns Night and a large proportion of the population will sit down to a Burns Night supper to celebrate the birth of the country’s favourite poet, Robert (Rabbie) Burns. Given our propensity to piggyback on other country’s celebrations (I give you St Patrick’s Day as the perfect example) no doubt […]

It’s Burns Night so hands up, who likes haggis? Haggis is a traditional Scottish sausage made from a sheep’s stomach stuffed with diced sheep’s liver, lungs and heart, oatmeal, onion, suet and seasoning. It’s one of those dishes that doesn’t sound the most appetising (stomach, liver and heart!) but trust us, it delicious! We for one […]

It’s St Andrew’s Day but we are celebrating it throughout the week. St Andrew is the official patron saint of Scotland having been first recognised as such in 1320, but he is also the patron saint of Greece, Russia, Romania and Barbados.