
We celebrate the work of Robert Burns with this beautiful poem and song
We celebrate the work of Robert Burns with this beautiful poem and song
“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin’-race!”
“When chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neebors, neebors meet,”
“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, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough was written by Burns in November 1785, and was featured in the Kilmarnock volume.
“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.”
On 23rd of August 1305 William Wallace was executed.
“…after Caesar had been killed in the Senate on the day before, the sun’s light failed from the sixth hour until nightfall.”
Tam o’ Shanter, a lesson to all those that don’t take advice.
On 16th July 1439 kissing was banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death