We used to have a choice of Burns suppers to attend locally and often went to two or three during the week of Burns night. Unfortunately there was a bad outbreak of E-Coli in this area a few years back and the victims had all attended a Burns Supper in a local village hall. The source was traced by environmental health officers to sheep dung in the stream which supplied the water to the hall. Because of all the health and safety legislation and claim culture nowadays nobody seems willing to organise any Burns suppers since then.