Hogmanay is aye a time whan folk think aboot aa that has haippened owre the year. It's aye been a bit o a tradeetion for poets tae scrieve a wheen o lines at the dailygaun o the year yarnin o the ferlies o the aul year an giein their thouchts aboot the new yin. Noo maistly it was the grand folks' poets, sic as Laureates wha scrieved sic things. Hooaniver, Robert Burns himsel, wrote yin aboot the year 1787 or 1788, I cannae mind which yin. Wi Burns yin o the common folk cracks aboot a wheen o the maist important events o the year. Aiblins it's time tae bring back thon aul tradeetion: here's yin fae the Laureate o Ballygellick!
