Thanks to my digital contact Johnny Timpson for this poem he posted a couple of weeks ago on Burns Night. I had never properly read it before but in the context of my friendship with Johnny and the photos he includes at the bottom of his post, it has an immediacy that reaches out over a couple of hundred years.
I’m sorry I did not catch this first time around but it’s point is not lost. Burns set his feelings to words and those words can wait the couple of weeks since posting!
I will post two Scottish heroes
Something amiss?
To end – this fine suggestion from Derek Scott
There seems to be something amiss with your Johnny Timpson item this morning, or it may just be me …
Having introduced you to Emmylou, the modern day best interpreter of Burns in song is Eddi:
