It’s Burns Night so sit yourself down, raise a glass and toast the Immortal Bard. Don’t know any Burns? Not Scottish? What a dreadful life of drudgery you must lead.

Let me read you ‘Address to a Haggis’. You’ll just have to SIT THERE AND LIKE IT.

On the off chance you do like it; here’s my Audioboo stream where there’s other stuff I’ve read aloud.

Here’s a poem about the delectable delights of alcohol. It’s for all of us who are sitting in on a Saturday night with a wee dram to keep us warm. Love to all of you people.

The nights are ‘fer drawn’ in’ and nothing captures the mild peril of Winter like Robert Burns’ ‘Tam O’ Shanter’.

Submitted for your auditory enjoyment is me reading it.

If that didn’t bore you to tears then you can hear me reading other stuff that I like by clicking here.

The Problems of Scale - The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, read by me

 http://audioboo.fm/boos/862877

The Problems of Scale - The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, read by me http://audioboo.fm/boos/862877

For seven months from May 1938, Bellahouston Park in Glasgow’s South Side was given over to the spectacular Empire Exhibition. It was a chance for industry and tourism to stand side-by-side and stun the ordinary people of the tenements and shipyards of Glasgow and Scotland as a whole. 

It was hoped that the grand exhibition would serve to stimulate the Scottish economy which was only just getting back on its feet after the Great Depression. However, it is the sheer scale and remarkable architecture of the exhibition which is wondrous to modern eyes.

Originally, the 300ft Tower of Empire (or Tait Tower as it was more humbly dubbed by Glaswegians) was intended to stand as a permanent structure but it was unfortunately demolished in 1939.