Saffron Walden Burns Night

An excellent Saturday evening celebrating Burns Night with Saffron Walden Conservatives. With a large Harlow contingent, we sat down to Bagpipes, Haggis, Roast Beef, poems and songs.

I was really pleased to be there, not just because it is such a great event, but also that many Saffron Walden Tories, came to help us in Harlow, during the General Election Campaign. It was good to be able to thank everyone.

There could not have been a better way to celebrate the great Scottish Bard.

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Burns Night in Saffron Walden

As you will see from the pictures, Vanda and I, along with eight friends from Harlow had a lovely night yesterday at Saffron Walden Conservatives Burns Night Celebrations. Haggis, Roast Beef, Glenfiddich Whisky was the order of the evening. It was just delicious.

We entered to bagpipes, had readings of Robbie Burns Poems, and some beautiful Scottish songs sung by a remarkable opera singer.

It was a lovely way to celebrate everything Scottish and one of the world's most famous poets. On each table there was a Scottish Flag and I thought to myself that only a proud, secure and strong nation that England is, would be so willing to celebrate and mark the achievements of another.

P.S. As a watch collector, I was really pleased to meet at the dinner, one of the most famous clock and watch makers in England, (A. James Jewellers), who has a shop in Saffron Walden. He is a former Chairman of the British Horological Society and a close friend of George Daniels, one of the most famous watch makers in the world (he invented the co-axial movement for automatic watches now used by Omega).