Since we were nearby, myself and the good lady thought we’d take a look at Mauchline in Ayrshire. She has a great interest in the fashioned wooden objects known as Mauchline Ware since the town was a locus for its manufacture.

The town has a big Burns connection though, including Poosie Nansie’s Tavern:-

Plus there is a statue of Mauchline lass Jean Armour who became Burns’s wife:-

The Kirkyard contains a few notables. Poosie Nansie’s grave:-

Willie Fisher’s grave. Fisher was the prototype of ‘Holy Willie’ in Rober Burns’s ‘Holly Willie’s Prayer’ :-

Grave of Robert Burns’s infant children:-

We did not explore much more then the centre of Mauchline, so it seems we missed this.