A SPECIALLY baked cake will help raise funds when Greenock Burns Club holds its annual coffee morning on Saturday.
Following the tradition of many years, Aulds have donated a delicious cake to be raffled at the event.
The icing is of a painting by Thomas Stothard which is exhibited in the National Gallery of Scotland, depicting the devil with his fiddle dancing through town dragging away the excise man from Burns’ song ‘The Deil’s’ Awa’ Wi’ the Excise Man’.
President Jamie Donnelly chose the image to celebrate the recent opening of the club’s archive and exhibition room at the Custom House in Greenock, which is open to the public on Saturdays from noon to 2pm.
The proceeds of the coffee morning will go towards the cost of the upcoming Inverclyde Secondary Schools Burns Supper, which will be hosted by Inverclyde Academy on February 15, along with the local heat for the annual Robert Burns World Federation schools competition.
Saturday’s coffee morning runs from 10am til noon in Greenock Town Hall and will be opened by Provost Martin Brennan, with a whole host of stalls for people to browse.
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