Today is Robert Burns' birthday, which means that tonight is Burns Night, which is the night that Burns Suppers happen. And that's as much as I know.
True Scots Hugh Bryden and David Borthwick, however, know far more and have conceived and delivered a wonderful project to celebrate the Bard's birthday.
It's Windows on Burns Night, which in essence involved loads of poets writing loads of poems on acetates which then got placed in four venues in Dumfries. Two are public houses - The Globe and The Coach and Horses - one is Burns House (where the poet spent the last years of his life) and one is a new arts venue, The Stove. Lots of poets played - Jen Hadfield, Jean Sprackland, Andrew Grieg, Tom Pow, Hugh McMillan, Jean Atkin, Vivien Jones, Graham Fulton, Betty Tindal and probably fifty others. Plus five local primary schools!
Burns drank at The Globe, and famously inscribed poems on its window panes using a diamond ring. Or possibly stylus.
Anyway, so far I've only managed to peruse those at The Stove and The Globe. Here's a taste. Don't expect to be able to read all the poems - I found it incredibly difficult to photograph windows.
So Happy Birthday Mr Burns, and thank you for restoring Scotland's pride after the IPYPIASM drubbing.
Because that's
Scotland, 200 : Ireland and the Rest of the World, 0
In other less exalted news, I'm afraid Mr T was rushed to hospital in an ambulance yesterday, and what's worse, he's still there. Not in pain and not in danger, but rather unwell. Who's going to do the ironing?
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