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.
Posted: 15th, July 2009 | In: Reviews Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
