Pleasures are like poppies spread

It was a pleasure to join the Kansai St. Andrew's Society to celebrate the 256th Anniversary Burns Supper.  With lots of tartan on display, haggis, plenty of the recently voted number 1 whisky in the world  and the local pipe band it was an evening that the bard himself would have found familiar.

Beginning with the Selkirk Grace, then the piping of the haggis, address to the haggis, immortal memory, toast to the lassies and reply to the laddies its safe to say that the evening followed the traditional order of events.  It finally concluded with recitations of Burns poems and songs and a rousing chorus of Auld Lang Syne.

Many view Burns poetry as being as relevant today as when he wrote them over 300 years ago.  There are certainly some that resonate today, and in the current unstable world climate today's quote certainly rings true.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
Robert Burns