The Kilmarnock Edition

Robert Burns, widely regarded as Scotland's national poet, was born on this day in 1759. His first major book of poetry, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was published in July 1786 in Kilmarnock and this has since become known as "The Kilmarnock Edition".

So, in celebration of Burns' Day, I took the bus down from Glasgow to Kilmarnock and started my visit at the Burns Monument Centre in Kay Park (photographed) before spending the rest of the day wandering around that park and the nearby, and larger, Dean Castle Country Park.

Back home in the evening I joined many other Scots in a meal of haggis, neeps and tatties, washed down with a wee dram (extra picture).