Burns Night, celebrating the poet Robert Burns

Above: my sister married a McDonald, which means we are familiar with all the recognisable items of the Scottish diaspora (several generations removed its homeland) - a dried Scottish thistle, single malt whisky, haggis, the poetry of Burns, a tartan napkin (I have questioned whether it is a McDonald tartan), what looks like a dirk etc.

This evening is Burns Night, celebrating the poet Robert Burns.

According to today's Daily Telegraph more Burns Night celebrations are held in England than in Scotland (or anywhere else in the world), which makes it arguably an English cultural event as well as a Scottish one.

Burns' most famous poem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lAi9A9s5lg&playnext=1&list=PLEA05651F9B270D73&index=40