Yours, Robbie Burns A three-year publishing venture turns Scotland's bard into a blogger on his 250th birthday

Anyone still casting around for a new year's resolution that's not going to be too hard to keep could do worse than head in the direction of Scotland's national poet, or at least in the direction of his letters.

Two hundred and fifty years after Robert Burns's birth, the National Trust for Scotland is publishing his letters online, each one on the day it was originally written. They've chosen the years 1787-1789, partly because the three-year period fits in with the construction of the Robert Burns Birthplace museum, due in 2010, but mostly because it's one of the most interesting and prolific periods of the poet's letter-writing career.