Entry for 23rd December, 2007

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I go to a Burns Supper every year, and tonight was the night. If you have been following my efforts at sobriety, you will be proud of me. I made it through the whole evening without a drop passing my lips. That is now 21 days without a bevvy. Oddly, I didn't particularly miss it. It is odd to have an evening in the West of Scotland, without returning in a taxi bewildered and impoverished.
The night was great fun as it always is. Almost all the entertainment - readings, songs, speeches - are made by club members - so, it's a very warm-hearted affair.
However, there is a down-side to the fact that all of the entertainment is home made. At the end of the evening they announce who next year's entertainers are going to be. It is like the bit on the X Factor where they announce which act is going to be returning to a life as a Second Rate Redcoat in Cleethorpes. There's a horrible hush, and you pray that you will be in the audience and not on the stage next year.
No such luck for me though. My name was read out to do The Toast For the Lassies, which is one of the big speeches. Worse than that, you're supposed to be funny. For about twenty minutes. As both of my regular readers know, I've been doing this blog for over a year now, and in about 300,000 words I've managed to be funny about twice. And one of them was a spelling mistake.
You have no idea how this ruined my evening. The only thing that brightened thing's was the fact that my friend The Iron Man, laughed extremely hard when my name came out the hat. He was not laughing so much when his name came out next.