Battle Of Culloden Commemorated In A Scotch Egg
TO Culloden Battlefield, where visitors are asked not to picnic on the remains of fallen soldiers. So requests Alasdair MacNeill, a member of A Circle of Gentlemen, a society which marks the Jacobite cause.
The Circle of Gentleman sounds like a club our patron Old Mr Anorak would be a leading light of, were it not for his morbid dread of being in circles and the requisite holding of hands. Rename it the Rhombus of Gentlemen and you’ve got a new Queen Mary.
Says Mr MacNeill:
“A family of four and their two dogs were sprawled across a grave mound having a picnic. The father was leaning against the headstone eating a Scotch egg and smoking a cigarette.”
A Scotch egg, aka Instant Haggis. Says the BBC:
The circle member said he would not expect such behaviour to be acceptable at World War I battlefields such as Flanders or Ypres.
But it is prepared to be outraged…
File under: Putting the Picts in Pictnics.
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July 15th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
whatever they are, they’ve caused a bit of a McFlurry…..
July 15th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Its not those McBurgers is it?
July 15th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Apparently the dead at Culloden were buried in such shallow graves that a recent cleanup of the picnic area accidentally produced 3 skips of old bones and had visitors falling to their knees with cries of ‘Macdonalds, nous sommes ici’.