All over the world, Scots are celebrating the anniversary of the birth of our national poet, Robert Burns. I was, of course, brought up on Burns, and at a very early age won this certificate (although for some reason I didn't recite a Burns poem!)
Some years later, I chose this book ........
..... when I won the English prize in 3rd year. It was special to win this, as the prize was given by our family doctor, in memory of his son who had died when he was fifteen
The label was written by my latin teacher Wee Jimmy Russell, who had also taught my Dad, and the Rector of the school, W.C. Henderson (of course he was known as Flush) had been a young teacher in charge of the school cricket team that my Dad was captain of.
To celebrate Burns Night we had haggis for dinner ..... but this year we didn't have a traditional
haggis. Instead we had these delicious haggis truffles ...
....... but we still had our traditional neeps and tatties with them
To finish, a little rant! Our traditional way of life in Scotland is under threat because of the grandiose plans of Emperor King President Dear Leader Alex Salmond, who keeps claiming that he is speaking for all of us when he demands independence for Scotland. Not so!! The majority of us wish to stay in the United Kingdom, and find his 'nationalism' unacceptable.
Normal service will be resumed tomorrow, with the usual knitting, sewing and food related post!