Christmas is coming
Christmas is just around the corner and if you are lucky enough to be staying at one of our fabulous comfortable cottages in High Kirkland, you won’t have to look far to be entertained in the charming town of Kirkcudbright as there is so much for you to do and see.
Robbie Burns
If you are interested in the history of Robert Burns then why not pop along to the local Parish Church in Kirkcudbright on the 14th December at 7.30 pm – 9.00pm (entrance fee £3.00 to non members) where you will hear the popular speaker Professor Ted Cowan talk about Galloway born Robert Heron who was the first person to write a memoir on Robert Burns, detested by the Burnsians for apparently traducing the bard, this talk steeped in Scottish history will take you through all the ins and outs of Ted Cowan’s arguments that Robert Heron was indeed a product of the Scottish enlightenment. Born in Creehead, New Galloway, the son of a weaver, Heron became Burns’s first biographer and was partly responsible, along with Dr Currie, for the widely current, though erroneous, 19th Century view that Burns drank himself to an early grave.
Auld Lang Syne
Auld Lang Syne – Robert Burns 1788
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o’ lang syne!
Chorus:
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu’d the gowans fine,
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary foot
Sin’ auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl’t in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin’ auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie’s a hand o’ thine,
And we’ll tak a right guid willie-waught
For auld lang syne!
And surely ye’ll be your pint’ stoup,
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
Christmas Spirit
Kirkcudbright town is full of the Christmas spirit with the lovely Christmas lights and shops full of delightful gifts for you to choose from and as Christmas is only twelve day away you have just enough time to buy that special gift perhaps from one of the many unique and independent shops packed full with all the local crafts and artisan produce you could wish for.
Pantomime
Yes indeed what a lovely place to spend Christmas and the New Year with all the traditions that’s Scotland is famed for, and as we all know Christmas isn’t Christmas without a good old Pantomime, so why not pop along and see the Kirkcudbright Parish Players in their presentation of Mother Goose which is being shown at the local Parish church tickets can be purchased at Thomson’s, adults £5.00 children £2.50.
Show times:
Wednesday 14th December 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Thursday 15th December 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Friday 16th December 7.30pm – 9.30 pm
Saturday 17th December 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm and 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
The best thing about Christmas memories is in the making of them…
http://www.kirkcudbright.town/calendar/
http://www.kirkcudbright.town/event/2136/?instance_id=597
http://www.kirkcudbright.town/art-and-artists-in-kirkcudbright/