Teachers help keep immortal memory alive

FEW Scots need to be told what a "wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" is, and even fewer would wonder what edible treat is being eulogised in the poem that begins "fair fa' your honest, sonsie face".

On Sunday, up and down the country, hosts and guests alike prepared an "immortal memory", a speech about Burns; a toast to the lassies, traditionally thanking women folk for their haggis preparation; and a feisty retort from the female perspective, a...