Burns Night

Here we are again, Burns Night, 25th January! We've been invited over to the pub for haggis tonight, courtesy of the landlord, so no haggis cooking here today, will make it next week and have even more. I was brought up on Robert Burns poetry and songs, living in and around Dumfries for many years. On a forum I read a comment from an exceedlingly arrogant Englishman about how he "didn't rate Burns as a poet"; well, Burns was very much a poet of time and place. If you know nothing of the time or place he wrote in, then you can never know the man....................