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Bloody hell, I always forget that swedes are so hard to chop up. #BurnsNight
WAIT, PLEASE UNDERSTAND I MEAN THE VEGETABLE.
Great chieftain o' the pudding-race! #BurnsNight 
I have issues with #BurnsNight cos Rabbie was such a goat w/ the ladies but still there are interesting women round him... so a THREAD 👇 Burns 1st poem, O Once I Lov'd A Bonny Lass, was inspired by his passion for 'Handsome Nell' a co-worker on this farm 👇 He was 15. 🙄 /1
Burns wrote poetry about women his whole life incl some who had writing talent. In 1787 in Edinburgh he met 9 sisters - the Ferriers. Obvs he penned them a poem. The youngest Susan, went on to write one of the most popular novels of the era, highly praised by Walter Scott. /2
Rabbie's most famous paramour was married. He nicknamed Agnes McLehose 'Clarinda' in a series of smoking love letters but she fled to Jamaica to her husband. They didn't reconcile. Rabbie said Agnes' poetry was 'worthy of Sappho'. This memorial to her 👇 is in the Canongate. /3
River City’s finest entertaining us at the Govan SNP Burns Supper. @WeeScottFletch toasting the haggis and @IainR0bertson doing his legendary Tam O’Shanter #BurnsNight
And the wonderful @julieduncanson with her amazing rendition of Kate O’Shanter
