John McWhinnie's drams

This blog is becoming a whisky advert - last night it was John McWhinnie's turn to celebrate his birthday last week with a few drams in the Burnett Arms:

l-r: Ian Stewart, John McWhinnie, Colin Kilgour, Dave Williamson, Ken Black and Gerry Mullins

Steve's drams - and Nigel's

Steve Paterson managed along to the Legion last night and we celebrated his recent birthday in the usual manner

l-r: Ian Sharp, Gerry Mullins, Ian Stewart, Colin Kilgour, Steve Paterson, John McWhinnie & Nigel Meany

No sooner had we finished these than Nigel bought some large whiskeys to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The table was awash with glasses:

A latecomer to the party was Andy Marshall, but Steve made sure he didn't go short:

The 3 CAMRA members present took the opportunity, in the absence of the camera-shy barman,  to present another Club of the Year award to the Legion:

IRS birthday drams

There were two rakes of drams for my birthday - first at last week's Headbang at Gary's:

Bailie Nicol Jarvie it was for the connoisseurs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailie_Nicol_Jarvie

Then last night in the Burnett, Messrs Sharp, Kilgour, Stewart and McWhinnie had the Malt of the Month:

Celebrations!

Brian Manson's 50th birthday was celebrated in the traditional fashion at Friday night's football:

l-r: Mike Johnston, Paul Ferguson, Andy Robertson, Neil McCubban, Steve Fawcett, Alan Davie, Brian Manson, Gary Duncan, John Macpherson, Nicky Gill, Bill Setter & Malcolm Lodge

I believe Brian is the 25th player to be awarded a commemorative shirt. There are now seventeen "50" shirts in circulation, with just six "60" shirts so far.

Later on that same evening, the old boys were celebrating Colin Kilgour's 69th birthday in our own traditional way:

l-r: Ian Stewart, Dave Williamson, Jeb Tyrie, John McWhinnie, Colin Kilgour and Ian Sharp

Xmas Eve footy/Big Dave's 64th

The annual gathering of the clans went well today - footy for some, beer and drams for others. Here's the players first (with me sneaking in too):

 The Burnett looked after us well too and Dave bought the Macallans again:

Have a good Christmas everyone.

Dan's drams

Dan Corbett showed up at the Legion on Friday night to do the honours for his 74th birthday:

l-r: Dan Corbett, John McWhinnie, Ian Stewart, Dave Williamson, Colin Kilgour, Gerry Mullins & Ian Sharp

Burnett drams

No real reason for buying drams in the Burnett on Friday night other than I hadn't yet bought a round and we were beer'd out, so there had to be a team photo, didn't there?:

l-r: Andy Marshall, Jeb Tyrie, Ian Stewart, John McWhinnie, Ian Sharp, Colin Kilgour and Gerry Mullins. Dave Williamson had left the building.