Let it Blaw – 2025

by Alex
Iain McSporran KC,
President & Supper Chairman
Club Piper Ruairi Bruce &
Haggis Bearer Mike Erskine

‘Address to a Haggis’
Jim Goodbrand
‘Grace before Meat’
Lachlan Archibald

‘Grace After Meat’
Hugh Rowe – President of the Marchbank Burns Club
‘Is there for Honest Poverty’ led by Jim Weatherston, Ian Duncan, Charlie Boyle & Robert Mackie

Toasts: ‘The Immortal Memory of Robert Fergusson linked to the Immortal Memory of
Robert Burns’ – Alex Hood
‘Appreciation of the Immortal Memories’ – Niall Donaldson

Kerr Cowan MBE receives a certificate marking his 50 years’ of “Let it Blaw” membership

Toast: ‘The Lasses’ – Duncan McCool
‘Reply to the Toast to the Lasses’ – Raymond Ward

Charlie Boyle, Robert Mackie, Ian Duncan,
Jim Weatherston

Toast ‘Balerno Burns Club,
Let it Blaw’ – Mike Erskine
‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’ –
Jim West
‘The Bard’s Oration’ given by Club Bard ‘Andy McGowan’

Vice-President –
Toast: to ‘New Members & Guests’ – John Cox
‘Green Grow the Rashes O’
Euan Gosney
Reply to the Toast to New Members & Guests –
Doug Kenyon

Jamie Buchanan
Jack McCaig
David Wilkinson

‘Gudeen to you Kimmer’
Carl John
‘Dainty Davie’
Dave Rice
My luv’ is like a Red, Red Rose’
Greg McCarra

‘Tam o’ Shanter’
Iain McSporran KC
‘Address to the Unco Guid’
Ken McDonald

‘Logan Braes’
Ivor Santer
‘The Silver Tassie’
Roy Cook
‘The Slave’s Lament’
Jim Donald

Toast: ‘The Cask’ –
Ken Brown
‘Sweet Afton’
Charlie Husband OBE

Toast: ‘Our Hosts – Currie Chieftains Rugby Club –
Neil Johnstone
Reply to the Toast to our Hosts – Alistair Buchanan
Toast: Chairman, Croupiers & Artistes” – Neil Murdoch

Jonathan Payne & Ken Brown
THE CROUPIERS
Alan Crilly & Brent Hurley