ATTENDEES at Saturday’s Ballarat Farmers Market included a group of community members in kilts, marking Scotland’s Burns Night.<\/p>\n
Burns Night occurs each year on 25 January and celebrates the country’s national bard, Robert Burns.<\/p>\n
The night traditionally includes a supper with haggis, neeps, tatties and sometimes a dram, or glass of whiskey.<\/p>\n
Market manager Steve Burns thought it would be fun to celebrate the occasion, with his father going by the same name as the famous poet, Robert Burns.<\/p>\n
“They have what they call a Burns supper and depending how into or not people are it can be quite a big affair,” Burns said.<\/p>\n
“I am a Burns and my dad’s name happens to be Robert Burns so I’ve been aware of Burns Night.<\/p>\n
“I just twigged the other day that this market is on Burns Night.”<\/p>\n
The market manager always wears a kilt to the market and said it is a way to express his individuality and be identifiable to stall holders.<\/p>\n
He also recommends wearing a kilt on a long-haul flight and said they are very comfortable.<\/p>\n
“It has a practical benefit because when I’ve got new stallholders or enquires, all anyone down the front needs to say is, ‘just go find Steve with the kilt’,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We kind of live in a bland world where everything is just whatever you get from a chain store so it’s great to see individuality and it’s great to see aspects of national dress.<\/p>\n
“I also love that I can wear a kilt as formal attire so a bloke can wear a dress to a formal event.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ATTENDEES at Saturday’s Ballarat Farmers Market included a group of community members in kilts, marking Scotland’s Burns Night. Burns Night occurs each year on 25 January and celebrates the country’s national bard, Robert Burns. The night traditionally includes a supper with haggis, neeps, tatties and sometimes a dram, or glass of whiskey. Market manager Steve […]<\/p>\n