MCI is celebrating Burns Night! Not only that, but one year ago, the newly formed MCI Social Media team started to send out regular posts to their friends and customers. How time has flown! We have gone from strength to strength over the year and would like to thank all of the people who have liked our posts and become our followers. We have covered some of MCI’s work, inventors, MCI’s dogs and holidays. We look forward to showing you more of what we do here at MCI as well as some of Scotland’s most influential people and beautiful places.
However, back to the task at hand. Robert Burns needs little introduction. Few people can say that they have never sung ‘Auld Lang Syne’, especially as it is less than one month since new year! Perhaps fewer people may know that the song is actually one of Robert Burn’s poems put to music. The poem itself is about old friends who meet for a drink and talk about their fleeting youth and times shared. Even the hardest hearted Scot feels nostalgic when they sing this song. Now this song has become internationally recognised as a song for new year and is an integral part of the celebration in the UK.
On Burns Night, however, things are a bit rowdier. If you are not from Scotland and wonder what goes on, many Scots will be going to a Burns Night party. A plump, steaming hot haggis will be piped in by bagpipe as an ‘honoured guest’. A special Burns poem about haggis is read over the pudding. A knife is then ceremonially plunged into the pudding and its contents pour forth spreading its lovely spicy scent and good cheer around. After a good meal of haggis, mashed potato and turnip, it’s common to have a whisky or two before dancing the night away to traditional Scots music. The whole thing is raucous, wild, happy and noisy and we love it!