Nothing yet about our most celebrated Scot?
Here's to our Bard! Robert Burns most definitely has his place in modern culture: songs soundtracked in hundreds of films; inspiration for countless of greats from Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson; the first ever person to be commemorated on a Coke bottle; his face on a ten pound note; after Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus, more statues of him than any other non-religious figure; Auld Lang Syne recognised as one of the top three most popular songs in the English language; his poetry sent into space and some of literature’s best-loved modern classics motivated by his works. All that and a body of work that is still relevant after more than 200 years and which reminds us how sharing a common bond of kith and kin is what is most important in life.
And that is the tradition that is constantly under attack today, trying to turn us all into a sea of soulless consumers, without a past or a purpose or an identity. Well no, don't allow it - here's to the immortal memory!! Sae let the Lord be thankit.