“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin’-race!”
Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns
Tam O’ Shanter By Robert Burns
“When chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neebors, neebors meet,”
The Bravery
“I have often said to myself what are the boasted advantages which my country reaps from a certain Union that counterbalance the annihilation of her Independence, and even her very name!” Robert Burns
To A Mouse #RobertBurns
To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough was written by Burns in November 1785, and was featured in the Kilmarnock volume.
Even heroes have heroes.
“At the end of a turbulent, desperate and – let’s be honest – hellish year, this week was proof positive that Scotland is increasingly comfortable in its own very distinct political culture and worldview. Support for normal democracy amongst Scots nudges sixty percent. And it will only grow.”
William Wallace #OnThisDay
On 23rd of August 1305 William Wallace was executed.
Turmoil in Roman Republic followed Alaskan volcanic eruption
“…after Caesar had been killed in the Senate on the day before, the sun’s light failed from the sixth hour until nightfall.”
Poetry Corner Tam o’ Shanter
Tam o’ Shanter, a lesson to all those that don’t take advice.
Poetry Corner Ae Fond Kiss
On 16th July 1439 kissing was banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death
Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns
“Robert Burns is Scotland’s poet but he belongs to the world….I make no apologies for beginning my story about Burns not in Ayrshire, but in America.”
