hey thanks for the website link!

Me wonders how one gets to be the OFFICIAL Roburt Burns website; I find that a comical notion seeing as he's been dead hundreds o' years now...

It is a major snowstorm scene here in Boston; anyone know of any Burns Suppers going on?

If the weather is more passable tomorrow night I will go sing a Burns song or two at the singers' club at Paddy Burke's--which I missed last week (first time back after several weeks of flu and cold related voice problems...calls to mind how Burns died: he inspected distilleries for a living and often rode on horseback 300 or more miles per week...when he began having respiratory problems his doctor prescribed what was then a popular oddity: the "ocean cure," in which the patient swam in the Atlantic, even in winter...would Robbie have lived into his forties if he had not taken his doc's advice so eagerly?)

Also missed Tony Cuffe and Gerry O'Sullivan's Burns tribute concert this past Saturday...again, the cold (4o below windchill) and a pal cancelling at the last minute...this silly weather has been turning me into a veritable recluse...

I am leaving work early today and going cross country skiing, come hell or deep drifts...

and will polish off a wee dram o' Scotch in Robbie's honor, afterwards...

Happy Burns Night to all!

peg