"We take the traditions of Burns Night and give them a Black Country twist" - Essington Farm gets ready to celebrate life of Robert Burns with annual toast to haggis
The owner of Essington Farm is getting ready to put on his annual Black Country twist on the address to the haggis and the life of Robert Burns.
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The annual Black Country Burn's Night event at the farm on Friday, January 24 will see Richard Simkin welcome in guests for a four-course meal, a glass of whisky and an opportunity to celebrate the life and poetry of the Scottish poem Robert Burns.
It will also give Mr Simkin the chance to give his traditional reading of the Robert Burns poem "Address to a Haggis" in a Black Country dialect.
He said that the translated version had come about after going to Burns Night events in the past and struggling to understand the reading of the poem, which is written in the Scots language.
He said: "When I was going out with my wife, her parents were members of the Caledonian Society in Wolverhampton and the highlight of the social calendar was the Burns Dinner every January.
