Today the birth of Robert Burns will be celebrated worldwide, the haggis will be piped, in the ode will be recited after which the haggis will be consumed with tatties and neeps and many a toast drunk in good Scotch whiskey. Poems recited, songs sung and a good night will be had by one and all in memory of Scotlands' greatest poet and a collector of folk songs.
I can't resist the opportunity to share the first quote in my scrapbook :-
" Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness.
And whatever injures society at large or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity."
Robert Burns ( 1759 - 96 )
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