A Sound Sleep?

Spotted this plaque in Falkirk Town Centre a few weeks ago and made a note to return on the date in question - 25th August, i.e. today. So my blip for today marks the anniversary of Rabbie Burns having a night's kip in Falkirk. Apparently the building was an inn at the time and not a music shop.

The title of the shop, however, gives rise to a few possible puns to mark the event: tossing & turning in his sleep perhaps, or the one I've used as my title about having a 'sound' sleep. But I dug a little deeper about Burns' revolutionary sympathies and found the following - so maybe Revolution Music would have been the ideal place for him to lay his head.

There has been recent debate about Burns' support for the French Revolution. In his day he was called a democrat, a word at the time similar to the word terrorist today. According to one website, in his poem 'Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime?' Burns writes:

"Proud Priests and Bishops we'll translate
And canonise as Martyrs;
The guillotine on Peers shall wait;
And Knights shall hang in garters.
Those Despots long have trod us down,
And judges are their engines;
Such wretched minions of a Crown
Demand the People's vengeance!
Today tis theirs. Tomorrow we
Shall don the Cap of Libertie!"