Scottish Night - meeting 958

 Steve, strong, brave and wounded Scottish night Toastmaster, ran the meeting with a highland fling and poetry....

Leesa (intense photographer) Annette (noting all the grammatical areas for improvement) Darryl preparing for a thoroughly entertaining speech.

Amanda and Jonathan fully embracing the 'slangevar' - good health, toast. Round robin had us all rolling our 'r's' and speaking lyrically with the Robert Burns poem 'To a Mouse'. Amanda won the Aussie raffle - mangoes and aussie flag items (courtesy of Maureen and sold by John)

 It takes a lot of gumption (word of the night - thanks Amanda) to play the bag pipes! Thank you Campbell for the variety of tunes to warm our hearts (he is usually in the brewers supplies shop at Sandgate - wonder if he wears the kilt there??)

AND for supper Scottish fare (shortbread and delicious Tunnock items)

Tunnocks  Tea Cakes

The product consists of a small round shortbread biscuit covered with a dome of Italian meringue, a whipped egg whiteconcoction similar to marshmallow.[3] This is then encased in a thin layer of milk or dark chocolate and wrapped in a red and silver foil paper for the more popular milk chocolate variety, with blue, black, and gold wrapping for the dark.

Caramel Wafers

The Tunnock's Caramel Wafer, correctly known as the Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Wafer Biscuit, is a bar consisting of five layers of wafer, interspersed with 4 layers of caramel. The bar is coated in chocolate, made from cocoa and milk solids. The wafers are wrapped in red and gold coloured foil. Dark chocolate wafers, wrapped blue and gold, are also available

Thomas Tunnock Limited, commonly known as Tunnock's, is a family baker based in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland.