[Dixielandjazz] Scotland visit

[Don Ingle]

Haggis -- I could tell you what is in it, but then I'd have to kill you...if
the haggis hasn't already!
Actually it is a sort of meat loaf cum pudding  made of tripe, oatmeal a few
veggies and cooked in the stomach of a sheep. If invited to partake, be sure
there is plenty of usquebaugh on hand to wash it down. Enough of that and
everything tastes good.
   IF you are in Edinborough, you are only about 18 miles away from
Auchendinny, where some of my kin lived afore heading for the states many
eons ago. Have not been there myself, but a friend visited it and said that
if I ever did, not to blink or I might miss it.
Slainte,
Don Ingle
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Scotland visit


> Hi all,
>
> Found an internet cafe near the hotel here in Edinburgh and so I'm sending
> greetings around to the folks back home.
>
> We're having great fun playing at this festival . . . yesterday we had an
> audience of about 4,000 at one of the outdoor venues in the Princes Street
> Gardens. That's the most people I've ever seen in any or our audiences!
>
> Fish and chips are pretty good in this neighborhood along with the lagers,
> ales and single malts!
>
> Day before yesterday was the start of the festival and they put us on the
> open top deck of one of those red busses and drove us around town and the
> band played for passers by. If we had a hat to pass we probably could have
> picked up a few bob!
>
> Last night we played at a 5 star hotel in St. Andrews (near the Old
Course)
> and they put us up free overnight (the normal room cost runs about £250)!
I
> doubt we were worth it but we had a wonderful time!
>
> The  food is pretty good but I'm not to sure of that stuff they call
> 'haggis" - Perhaps the honorable Scot Don Ingle can enlighten me on just
> what that stuff is.
>
> Love to all of you and I just wanted you all to know that Jazz is alive
and
> well here north of Hadrian's wall!
>
> Bill "I'll just have a wee dram" Gunter
> jazzboard@hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
>
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