How long has this been going on?

Formal Burns Night gatherings belong to a 200 year-old literary tradition that is celebrated annually throughout the English-speaking world.

Our local event began with five friends who gathered in a saloon in Gladstone in 1996.

Somebody reckoned that when the barkeep didn’t throw us out, we could probably do it again the next year and invite more guys. Funny how manly logic so often prevails.

There’s been a lot of poetry and some pretty decent single-malt under the bilges since then.