Rabbie Burns Night is coming up. . .25th January

I wrote a post several years ago about Burns Night and thought that now was a good time to revisit that post. 25th January is the birthday of Robert Burns.  Some of you may be asking, “Who is he?’ He is probably the most well known of the Scottish poets.  There are links to many…

Some sorely missed Scottish food.

We have been down in Melbourne for the weekend, more about that later, and while we were there we visited a butchery that our elder daughter had told us about.  We had tasted some of the wares from there previously as she had purchased some for a meal she had prepared. The butchery is in Dandenong…

Rabbie Burns night

How remiss of me not to have mentioned yesterday the birthday of Robert Burns.  Some of you may be asking, “Who is he?’ He is probably the most well known of the Scottish poets.  There are links to many wonderful resources at this site as most of his works have been digitised. When asked the…