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Buster not that your fellow Scotties would ever suggest destruction of beds
but perhaps a little inspiration…Looking forward to hearing more of your day-to-day activities!
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Sounds like Rory is settling into foster life very quickly indeed! Great to see. Post Burns Night update…well, the haggis seems to provide super energy!
Just after his morning walk (cue very muddy paws), Mac took a mad fit and did a “saaaaaahhhhhhhh” (running madly back and forth, whilst using the new landing carpet for traction; imagine jet engines on a dog, turned up to full throttle…). The adjoining pale coloured bedroom carpet (formerly non-patterned) now has a multitude of go fast mud stripes and claw marks! Mac says it looks much better like this and is planning a complete interior makeover to match. Roll on Burns Night next year he says!! (the generous offer still stands to teach Buster* all things Scottie ). Meanwhile, Bonnie says she is permanently starving and refuses to listen to the most dreaded of all swearwords ever again…“DIET”! (*Buster: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12340)
IMG_3331a.JPGWell Buster, look at your tidy bed – you’re definitely trying to make a good impression!
You really should start on the soft beds first (= fun!) and work up to the hard plastic ones (=no fun!). You are looking great and your sores are healing very well. Keep working on the cat! Look forward to reading your progress.Och aye, it’s Burns Night!
No, we haven’t been too near the fire…it’s in celebration of Robert Burns, the famous Scottish poet (better known for Auld Lang Syne!). So, it’s haggis, wi’ neeps ‘n tatties for dinner (turnip and spuds to the non-Scots!). We even dressed up for the occasion…Mac has been growing his red sideburns for aaaaaaggges! Our slaves reliably(?) tell us that a haggis is a fearsome, stinking and dishevelled creature, that lives in the wilds of Scotland on top of Ben Nevis…sounds just like one of our forebears! At our Burns supper, we’ll be reciting the poem below by our countryman ‘Rabbie’, just as the haggis is ceremoniously piped in…Scots Wha Hae, all the way! Mac and Bonnie xxx
PS We’ve no idea what the poem means but it mentions food, so must be good!
Address To A Haggis
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang’s my arm.The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!Then, horn for horn, they strech an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve,
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
‘Bethankit!’ hums.Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whissle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o ‘fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!Robert Burns (1759-1796…a long time deid!
)IMG_3335b.JPGWell done Jay for choosing your foster family for keeps…you know it makes sense!
Keep us updated on how they spoil you.
but perhaps a little inspiration…
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Just after his morning walk (cue very muddy paws), Mac took a mad fit and did a “saaaaaahhhhhhhh” (running madly back and forth, whilst using the new landing carpet for traction; imagine jet engines on a dog, turned up to full throttle…). The adjoining pale coloured bedroom carpet (formerly non-patterned) now has a multitude of go fast mud stripes and claw marks! Mac says it looks much better like this and is planning a complete interior makeover to match. 
Roll on Burns Night next year he says!! (the generous offer still stands to teach Buster* all things Scottie 
). Meanwhile, Bonnie says she is permanently starving and refuses to listen to the most dreaded of all swearwords ever again…“DIET”! 
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Keep us updated on how they spoil you.