Southend Highland Games - now with results and photos

[neilly]

The local Southend haggis hunt (often abbreviated to the S'hag hunt) was established in 1611 by the Rev.Ivor Hardon,who lived in a cave at Keil. It still meets on the first Saturday of October, led by the horn-blowing Major Bearbus who signals the start once the drams have been downed and the all-important rain arrives, thus rendering the hunt legal.
Hunting the haggis is no easy matter. Central to the art is stealth; and for some peculiar reason the haggis is extremely sensitive and aware to the slightest sound of the plaid rubbing on underpants, which is why the modern-day haggiser never wears anything under his kilt. To disguise his odour he adopts a shambling gait and staggers from side to side which puts the haggis off his scent and enables him to surprise the beast and make it bolt from the heather.
It is well-known that haggis have odd-length legs, so that they can run round and round the sloping hillsides where they live.
And when they are pursued by the haggis-chasers, they run faster and faster until they become dizzy and lose their balance, making them tumble down the hillside, where the haggis-baggers are waiting to stun them using an old hickory-shafted golf club with a bag of oats tied to the end.

[LANDROVER ROGER]

Neilly wrote"It is well-known that haggis have odd-length legs, so that they can run round and round the sloping hillsides where they live."
I believe that this breed of haggis is totally reversible in that if confronted,it can run just as fast on the hillside in reverse as it can in forward motion.Is this correct?

[MPR]

I do think you are correct, do they not have that specialized telescoping bone? I think they may be the only egg laying marsupial mammal with this particular type of bone.
Did Attenborough not come and try to do a tv program on them ? too bad that program was never completed, very sad what happened to that TV crew.

[LANDROVER ROGER]

I do think you are correct, do they not have that specialized telescoping bone? I think they may be the only egg laying marsupial mammal with this particular type of bone.
Did Attenborough not come and try to do a tv program on them ? too bad that program was never completed, very sad what happened to that TV crew.

I believe that their hair fell out and their eyes are permanently bulging from their sockets and they walk in a peculiar way after suffering trauma.

[4th gen Suthen']

aye, very good Neilly. You do seem to have some kind of insider's grasp of it all!

[4th gen Suthen']

Southend Highland Games this Saturday night folks. 23rd July in the Community Playing Field Southend, just behind the Argyll Hotel!

Kintyre Schools Pipe band will be playing at 5.45 and again during the night.

All the usual children's races and adult track and field events. Good cash prizes and great fun. A ladies' mile race again this year.
Highland Dancing and piping competitions.

Many sideshows and attractions, beer tent, fish n chips, Charlie McLean's burgers...Beat the Goalie back by popular request, with prizes courtesy of WEE TOON SPORTS, Campbeltown.
This year we even have a dog show to be ran by Lynn Wilson. If you have an attractive dog, bring it along and get it entered.

C'mon down...be there or be....ehh ..SQUARE!

[JAFFA]

Leaveing home at 20.00 Friday night so we wont miss it......See ya all there.

kind regards Jeff

[4th gen Suthen']

great stuff Jaffa. See you Saturday.