Hamish and Hazel, two haggis children went to a great haggis gathering – a picnic in Aberdeen. They wandered off and as children often do but were left behind by their huge family in the confusion of packing up. Follow their adventures around Aberdeenshire as they track down their family and meet some new friends along the way. The rhymes contain a mixture of Scots and the local dialect, Doric. Translations are available at the bottom!
Aence in the wids, twa hagglets did roam
Far frae their family and far frae their home
They’d sneaked awa fae their family picnic
And been left far behind, it hid happened sae quick
Bit a kindly auld puddick wi a kindly wee face
He’d sent them aff tae an affa auld place
An ancient stone circle far deep in the wids
So they gleefully ran, the twa Haggis kids
So they skipped roon the tree stumps, the burnies they crossed
And forgot for a whiley that they were quite lost
For quite an an adventure this hid turned oot tae be
As they stopped tae catch breath on a mossy humpty!
They sensed they were close tae aene o their kind
No stop, hae a look, see fit ye can find!
Translation: Once in the woods, two haggis children wandered. They were a long way from their family and home because at a family picnic, they’d gone off to play and hadn’t been missed – the family left the picnic quickly and they’d been left behind. When we left them at The Hagglet’s Adventure part 4, a friendly frog had sent them towards Countesswells Woods where there was an ancient Haggis meeting place, a stone circle. They ran towards it in the woods and for a while they were happy and even forgot that they were lost. It was quite an adventure, but they were out of breath, so they stopped to rest on a bank of moss. They had a feeling that there were other Haggis’ nearby!