Oooooooh Edna!----I realised I'd made a boo-boo right efter I hit the button! I know that your name begins wi' an "S" [see---I gave ye a CAPITAL letter!]. Hope yer Ma disnae biff ma lug for mis-ca'-in' her wee lassie next time I'm over there! [and the saicint letter's an "a"---]
And a wee word to "Guest Van"---I used to travel regularly frae Irvine tae Hexham Northumberland. Being a "fish an' chips connoseur"[sp?] I stopped without fail in Annan---the best fish and chips in the west [or sooth or north!]. A thoosan' curses oan the blackguard who proposed the Annan bypass!
***ps to Edna--have you ever visited the Burns museum in Irvine High Street? If you can catch the caretaker at home, he will be pleased to welcome you. I had the first Kilmarnock edition in my two hands in there. And you'll find an unlikely author sharing the building with Rabbie--Edgar Allan Poe, who attended school for a time in Irvine.