The Hint O' Hairst

"O for a day at the Hint O' Hairst,
Wi' the craps weel in an' stackit,
When the farmer steps thro' the corn yard,
An' counts a' the rucks he's thackit: "

by Charles Murray, Alford's own Robert Burns.

Charles Murray (1864-1941) is the much celebrated Doric poet whose best known collection of poems is Hamewith, from which the above verse is taken. The days of "rucks" (hay ricks) are long gone, but the spirit is still there......

View looking towards Whitehouse Crags in the Vale of Alford, Aberdeenshire.