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And just like that, we bow out of for yet another year. A descriptive etching by Walter Geikie of a poem by Robert Burns - 'Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny'. Bet Tam was glad of that last dram before he mounted Meg yon night!
Happy and sleep soundly!

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2022-01-26

For To a Mouse, On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785: 'I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,/Has broken nature’s social union,/An’ justifies that ill opinion,/Which makes thee startle/At me...'
(The Harvest Mouse by Joseph Wolf, Once a Week 1861)

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2022-01-26

‘Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race! Happy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Here's a short extract from our title 'The Menu: Memorable Meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to a Suffragettes’ Victory Dinner...' about the origins of this celebration.

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2022-01-26

Happy Robert Burns Day and Burns Night. Here's a little piece on his last home, Burns House museum in Dumfries - a place of pilgrimage ever since the poet’s death there in 1796 https://t.co/s5hqe0hMcQ

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2022-01-25