Duck Dinner (2004)

Venue: The Thistle Hotel, 107 Leith Street (East end of Princes Street), Edinburgh

We are returning to the 4 star Thistle Hotel in Edinburgh city centre for our traditional roast duck dinner. The Danish Management last year made sure that this was the most ‘Danish’ meal in the history of DSS’s duck dinners! The location means easy access for people travelling by bus or train. Car parking is also available next to the hotel.
We will meet in the Cramond Bar on 2nd floor at 7 p.m.
Menu:

• Gravad lax
• Duck and ‘brunede kartofler’
• Go’ gammeldaws æblekage (traditional apple pie)

Price: only £15 !

If you would like to attend, we need to know no later than 8th November. Please complete and return the sign-up form attached to the latest newsletter ASAP, enclosing payment (bookings are non-refundable and on a first-come-first-served basis).

A vegetarian option is available.

Venue: The Danish Cultural Institute, 3 Doune Terrace, Edinburgh

Once again, Aileen Friis-Jørgensen is organising a craft fair with a variety of Danish and Scottish products for sale such as Christmas decorations, paintings, jewellery, tartan and felt products etc. Donations from the stallholders and customers will be sent to St Columba’s Hospice, Edinburgh.
Any queries please contact Aileen Friis-Jørgensen on 01506 891224.

Get your Christmas shopping done early and/or renew your membership subscription with us over a cup of coffee!

Children’s Playgroup

We are a group of bilingual children aged 0-7 who meet with our Danish-Scottish parents to play and sing Danish songs etc. Our provisional programme for April-June is as follows:

19.4.09 – Botanic Gardens;

9.5.09 – Dalkeith Country Park;

6.6.09 – Fife Animal Park;

28.6 – East Links Family Farm.

Please feel free to join us at any of these.
If you would like to know more, please contact Jette Lemvig (see details below).

Venue: St Peter’s Church Hall, Lutton Place, Edinburgh

After last year’s success, St Peter’s Church Hall will provide the hyggelige surroundings for our Christmas gathering. Come along and sample traditional seasonal refreshments like gløgg and æbleskiver, purchase Danish Christmas goods or have a go at making traditional Danish Christmas decorations such as julestjerner, julehjerter and borddekorationer. If you are interested in selling any Christmas products, you can book a table for £5, but please let us know in advance.
Once again, top quality Norman Fir Christmas trees (1.70-1.90m), kindly donated by Jens Christian Jensen (Danish Softwood), can be purchased for only £15 ! (Delivery within Edinburgh available for an additional charge of £5). This year we kindly ask you to put in an advance order and specify whether you would like to pick up the tree on the day of the party or organise a home delivery. Please contact Jonas Andersen (07974307031) to take advantage of this great offer.

As always, we will be singing and dancing around the Christmas tree and keep our fingers crossed that Santa will manage to find us! However, please help him out by letting us know in advance how many children are coming as well as their ages and names. (Please send Santa an e-mail on info@danishscottishsociety.org before 16th November and we’ll pass it on!)
We look forward to seeing you for a bit of julehygge!

Entry fee: 50p per child and £1 per adult (includes a raffle ticket). This charge is purely to cover the cost of hiring the hall.

Directions: Buses –3,3A,5,7,8,14,29,30,31,33,37,49 – from the bridges to South Clark Street/Minto Street. Lutton Place is just off South Clark St. Alternatively park in the car park behind the Commonwealth Pool or in the nearby streets, some have free parking.

We have kindly been sponsored new web-hosting for our website and are currently in the progress of updating to a new system. The new website will contain some more features and will also allow for members to contribute to the articles posted here.

We should be returning to a more familiar ‘look’ soon – meantime please let us know if you have specific requests for the website.

We are also interested in further sponsorships can in return offer advertising space on the new website. Please contact us on info@danishscottishsociety.org

The AGM will take place at the DCI, 3 Doune Terrace at 7.30pm followed by wine and cheese.

Two people are stepping down from the committee and we will therefore need members to take over their roles.  If you would like to help out running the society or hear more about it get in touch with Ulla or Jette by emailing the society on info@danishscottishsociety.orgThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .