[Gunnair]

EyeBrock wrote:

I don't mean web links. What are your links to Scotland? You are obviously an Uber-Jock.

Here's a nice piccy of Dad's Regiment. He's the Irish guy at the back.

MacDonalds of Sleat out of Skye that moved south to Devon, then over to Canada in the 1850's. Married into a Searle border clan, then MacMillans originally from the Knapdale area that came to Canada not much before my dad's family. Irish Campbells also slipped in unnoticed.

[EyeBrock]

Nice Lemmy! You are from Glasgow if I recall. Throwing pies at the Catholics at Ibrox and all that?!

[EyeBrock]

Gunnair wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

I don't mean web links. What are your links to Scotland? You are obviously an Uber-Jock.

Here's a nice piccy of Dad's Regiment. He's the Irish guy at the back.

MacDonalds of Sleat out of Skye that moved south to Devon, then over to Canada in the 1850's. Married into a Searle border clan, then MacMillans originally from the Knapdale area that came to Canada not much before my dad's family. Irish Campbells also slipped in unnoticed.

Wow, 1850's and you wear a kilt. Good stuff mate. Mum's from Dublin, Dad's from Cork. He joined a Jock regiment to annoy the proddies with his bagpipes.

[Lemmy]

EyeBrock wrote:

Nice Lemmy! You are from Glasgow if I recall. Throwing pies at the Catholics at Ibrox and all that?!

Nope. My dad's from Beauly, near Inverness and mom's from Methil, East Fife. The pie-throwing incident was at Tynecastle in Edinburgh (Hearts and Hibs is a mini-version of the Protestant-Catholic old-firm rivalry of Glasgow)

[Gunnair]

Lemmy wrote:

I originally got my kilt and Highland dress for my wedding. These days, I wear mine to Lodge every month. I wear it to a couple of Scottish Festivals every summer. I've also got kiddie kilts for the boys to wear. It makes Grandma happy to see the kids wearing the traditional gear. I also where Highland dress to the Legion Robbie Burns supper every January and other occassional formal outings. I used to wear it to weddings but, these days, I have more friends getting out of marriages than into them.

I own about a dozen or so, and wear them for everything. From digging the snow out of the driveway to weddings, to walking the dogs, to camping, to paintball. The last is at times... painful, for the back of my knees seem to be a popular target. I don`t even own a pair of pants anymore and only wear them as part of the naval uniform for work. Its as much a cultural reason as it is for the sheer practicality of it.

That and the chicks... chicks dig kilts.

[EyeBrock]

Lemmy wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

Nice Lemmy! You are from Glasgow if I recall. Throwing pies at the Catholics at Ibrox and all that?!

Nope. My dad's from Beauly, near Inverness and mom's from Methil, East Fife. The pie-throwing incident was at Tynecastle in Edinburgh (Hearts and Hibs is a mini-version of the Protestant-Catholic old-firm rivalry of Glasgow)

Yea, I was in the military with a rabid Hearts fan. He never threw a pie at me though.

[Lemmy]

EyeBrock wrote:

Lemmy wrote:

EyeBrock wrote:

Nice Lemmy! You are from Glasgow if I recall. Throwing pies at the Catholics at Ibrox and all that?!

Nope. My dad's from Beauly, near Inverness and mom's from Methil, East Fife. The pie-throwing incident was at Tynecastle in Edinburgh (Hearts and Hibs is a mini-version of the Protestant-Catholic old-firm rivalry of Glasgow)

Yea, I was in the military with a rabid Hearts fan. He never threw a pie at me though.

Never turn your back on a Protestant football fanatic with a Cornish pasty in his possession.

[EyeBrock]

It's the English infuence, the Cornish pasty I mean. It turns Paddy's and Jocks mean.

[EyeBrock]

Gunnair wrote:

Lemmy wrote:

I originally got my kilt and Highland dress for my wedding. These days, I wear mine to Lodge every month. I wear it to a couple of Scottish Festivals every summer. I've also got kiddie kilts for the boys to wear. It makes Grandma happy to see the kids wearing the traditional gear. I also where Highland dress to the Legion Robbie Burns supper every January and other occassional formal outings. I used to wear it to weddings but, these days, I have more friends getting out of marriages than into them.

I own about a dozen or so, and wear them for everything. From digging the snow out of the driveway to weddings, to walking the dogs, to camping, to paintball. The last is at times... painful, for the back of my knees seem to be a popular target. I don`t even own a pair of pants anymore and only wear them as part of the naval uniform for work. Its as much a cultural reason as it is for the sheer practicality of it.

That and the chicks... chicks dig kilts.

I don't think you'll find too many native born Jocks that keen on kilts. Regimental I take it?

[Gunnair]

EyeBrock wrote:

Gunnair wrote:

Lemmy wrote:

I originally got my kilt and Highland dress for my wedding. These days, I wear mine to Lodge every month. I wear it to a couple of Scottish Festivals every summer. I've also got kiddie kilts for the boys to wear. It makes Grandma happy to see the kids wearing the traditional gear. I also where Highland dress to the Legion Robbie Burns supper every January and other occassional formal outings. I used to wear it to weddings but, these days, I have more friends getting out of marriages than into them.

I own about a dozen or so, and wear them for everything. From digging the snow out of the driveway to weddings, to walking the dogs, to camping, to paintball. The last is at times... painful, for the back of my knees seem to be a popular target. I don`t even own a pair of pants anymore and only wear them as part of the naval uniform for work. Its as much a cultural reason as it is for the sheer practicality of it.

That and the chicks... chicks dig kilts.

I don't think you'll find too many native born Jocks that keen on kilts. Regimental I take it?

They`re not, though my Scot friends always loved to see me in mine.

Regimental depends on the company and the climate.

[EyeBrock]

When I was up at Goose Bay we had a Coy of the Scots Gds doing cross country ski training. They walked to the Bulldog Club (the junior ranks club) from transit accom, about 2 klicks, with kilts, Regimental and -30 C. Chilly willies.
They wore jeans the next night!

[Gunnair]

EyeBrock wrote:

When I was up at Goose Bay we had a Coy of the Scots Gds doing cross country ski training. They walked to the Bulldog Club (the junior ranks club) from transit accom, about 2 klicks, with kilts, Regimental and -30 C. Chilly willies.
They wore jeans the next night!

Far more comfortable in the cold than in the heat of summer. Sweat and rash and all....

[EyeBrock]

Regimental in -30C is only for those with a good chunk to lose!

[Bruce_the_vii]

I'm inclined to not to believe that. Minus ten maybe but not minus thrity.

[EyeBrock]

Goose Bay is -30 on a warm day Bruce.