Quintin Jardine's blog

An absolute first for me tonight. It’s years since I’ve been to a Burns supper of any sort, and that was very local, improvised by a bunch of friends. But I have never, absolutely never, been to one in Spain. The forthcoming gig is in the village hall in Rupia, about half an hour away, and Eileen and I will be chumming the irrepressible Kathy Crawford, lady of this parish. It’s organised by the multi-talented Fergus Muirhead, who manages to combine being BBC Scotland’s resident financial expert with being a noted Burnsian, and if that wasn’t enough, trebling as coach of the Barcelona Pipe Band. (Seriously.)