Happy St Andrew's Day!

Happy St Andrew's Day, and look who's shown up - it's our mysterious visitor from yesterday - my ain wee Nessie!

Seems to be getting along ok with Wee Hamish and Hoots Toots Haggis!

The line at the bottom is a nod to one of Robert Burns poems, which has significance to any Scots travellers out there, or anyone who's away from hame!

My Heart's In The Highlands

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, 
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, 
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, 
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, 
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, 
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, 
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns, 1789

The poem reminds me of when I was a wee boy at my granny's farm. Running through the bracken on the hillsides, scaring each other on the swing bridge, and falling into 'whin' bushes disturbing the poor rabbits that were hiding under them.

As I always say, what a glorious wee country we live in!

Hope yer having a creative day!

Speak soon, 

​Davy