Fir e last twa three hunner ears maist o e mannies in oor family tracheled awa ahin e ploo. N aa withers.
Bit me? A sit aside e fire on ma hinnerine n scrieve awa aboot things a dinna unnerstan.
N get iss ploo fir ma pains.
In this kirkyard in East Lothian, lies Robert Burns’ mother Agnes, his brother Gilbert, sister Annabella and a handful of nieces and nephew. The writing on the gravestone gets smaller the further down it goes. To accommodate all the names. There was no NHS in those days.
Bob Mitchell, Haddington, Scotland