The home of young Rabbie, Ayrshire They settl’d by the gentle Doon, With kettle-happy Granma’ Broun, Who whistl’d muckle lip-suck’d tune While cooking neeps, Or mutter’d tayles neath bright’ning moon To frighten sleeps. He wove his rhymes through thankless work, Or blanking out t...
Last month I wrote about my recent trip to Dunure in Ayrshire (see Looking Back), when I visited some of my childhood haunts, including the village of Alloway, famous for its association with the ‘ploughman poet’ Robert Burns. Next month I shall be returning to East Coker, the Somerset ...