blog and forum hosed!

I’m afraid my blog and the Forum were kaput for a few days, due to no fault of mine or the Webmistress’. Our server hosting company took a few days to respond to us but have since been very helpful and apologetic. But now we’re back. C’est la vie!

On a positive note, over the weekend I had fun at a local Burns Supper where I was invited to give a speech called the Toast Tae The Lassies, while Kathleen gave The Lassies’ Reply. The assembled company drank malt whisky and ate copious amounts of haggis, and I told dirty jokes and finished up playing and singing a few verses of a ~230 year old Robbie Burns song, ‘Green Grow The Rashes’, just my un-amplified voice and an acoustic guitar. It was terrifying, but very good for me. I didn’t spot any cameraphones and I’m praying it doesn’t show up on YouTube or you will all blackmail me for years to come.

4 Responses to “blog and forum hosed!”

  1. Retrocanary says:

    Thank goodness you’re back, there was me thinking you’d been credit crunched! Or is that just what we’re supposed to think according to the papers?

  2. docdelete says:

    Ha! I sincerely hope your rashes don’t ‘gan green’ !! ;) I think (hope) it’s rushes we’re talking aboot!

  3. mizmusic says:

    “500 internal server error”, plus “404 not found”= one big
    mess! ;) But all is well now!

    Hey, here’s a good Scottish joke for ya, stop me if you’ve heard
    this one before, or heck, even told it at the Burns Supper:

    Q: How many budgies can a Scotsman fit underneath his kilt?

    A: It depends on the size of the perrrrrrrch! :D

    No, I havenae yet been brave enough to try haggis. Yeah,
    some Scot I am! Only one-quarter, though; the rest of me
    is English, Hungarian and Czech! Yup, I’m a mongrel. ;)

    So, Thomas, were you the one strumming the guitar? Good
    for you, indeed! :) Right on! You know what they say: what
    doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Case in point: haggis. :P

    Peace and shortbread,
    Kara, not as Scottish as I thought I was…

  4. duglmac says:

    That was you? I thought you looked familiar. :)

    Just kidding, but one of the few times I remember my father ever being drunk when I was a kid ( it was for medicinal purposes: he had fallen skiing and hurt himself) he told me all of his MacTavish jokes. Have never tried Haggis.