What's in a date?

We've talked before more than once about the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar which happened in this country in 1752, and which involved, among other things, the striking out of 11 days from the calendar that year. So I was fascinated to hear about a place called Burghead up in the north of Scotland where they have their own idiosyncratic way of celebrating the New Year, and they do it on January 11th in memory of the old calendar. Of course, if you wished to nitpick (and I'm sure you'll remember that that's my forte) you could point out that since 1752 the two calendars have drifted even further apart, and that today the Julian New Year would fall on January 14th - but I thought it was a nice story.