Club Outing, Thursday 20th June 2024
Glasgow University Tour
Our annual club outing took us to the West End- of Glasgow, where, after some free time over a coffee and cake in Byres Road, we had a guided…
Burns Greeting 2024
The Year is Twenty TwentyFour
The year is Twenty Twentyfour. Twa thousand and twa dozen
Assailed a’ sides wi’ tales o’ woe, nae wonder heids are buzzin’
Mental health in disrepair. Aye, lockdown played a part
But the issues go…
Burns Greeting 2023
Burns an’ Hygge
A winter o’ discontent for aw’
As honest workers strike a blaw
Guid thochts can aften melt awa
Amid viral spike
Oor nation’s herts left tae thaw
Snaw aff a dyke
Too mony in this nation’s care
In hoddin’…
Burns Greeting 2022
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
As the Wolf Moon wanes each Janwar
It dims beside a blazing star
That lights the night, brightest by far
With verses glimmering
Take in this literary quasar
Stanzas shimmering
No Hubble scope or lens required
Just…
Burns Greeting 2021
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Paisley Burns Club (1805-2021)
A Lockdown Tonic
As Janwar’s winds blaw snell an’ keen
So, let the oldest club convene
Nae sherry sweet tae open the scene
Tae oor Burns tribute
Touch o’ a button lichts the screen
Nae supper…
2020 Immortal Memory
2020 Immortal Memory
2019 Immortal Memory
Immortal Memory 2019
Burns Greeting 2020
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Paisley Burns Club (1805 – 2020)
A decade gone in just a wink
Wae scarcely time tae sit an’ think
Politics taks us tae the brink
New Brexit dawning
While hopes fur peace start tae sink
Missiles an’ bombing
At oor Burns…
Burns Greeting 2019
Ellisland, 13 December 1789
One dark, dank December night
When ills of life had laid him low
Burns picked up his nib to write
Of human spirit’s ebb and flow
A bard scarce able to lift his head
His mind amok with ‘nervous disease’
Black…