Today is the day we drink a dram or two to the Ploughman’s poet, Robert Burns. It’s a Scottish celebration. Born in Ayrshire in 1759, Robert Burns is Scotland’s national bard. Dinner today is suppose to start with the Selkirk Grace, written in Burns:

“Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.”

Whatever you decide to do, do at least one thing Scottish. I’m going for a dram!

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