Billy Kay

I love John Duncan’s paintings, especially Bruce and de Bohun @smithmuseum. This captures perfectly the incident before Bannockburn where the English knight Sir Henry de Bohun attacked Bruce. Barbour’s epic poem The Brus describes the moment perfectly and Duncan recreates it.

Help displaced families in Gaza, and feed hungry bairns today. Even £5 will make a difference. Please help if you can 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️🇵🇸

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I’ll read passages from my heart felt love letter to an Ayrshire childhood while @RobynStapleton sings the beautiful Scots songs I grew up with, from Burns’ O Aw the Airts to Ramsay’s Lass o Patie’s Mill, accompanied by Neil Sutcliffe. January 16 @ccfest
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Delighted to contribute to the centenary edition of the estimable Scots Independent with a piece in Scots toasting the paper. Love the cover design by @AndrewRBarr. Boy, was I in great company with the Oliver Brown Award in recent years!

One of the great 18th century law lords and enlightenment figures in Edinburgh was Henry Home, Lord Kames. His fond farewell on retiring from the Court of Session just before his death were truly memorable. “Fare ye aw weel, ye bitches.”