Happy Birthday Steve and many happy returns of the day!

Happy Birthday Padre, and many happy returns of the day!

I learned from my Dad, who learned growing up wearing the kilt in the 40's and 50's (a much more tweedy era than today). He was the kid who wore his kilt daily to Uddingston Grammar School from...

Conversely Rex, many Scots in the Lowlands have Highland forebears as well as Lowland Scots, English, Irish, Welsh and others. The Highland/Lowland cultural division outwith the earlier Lordship of...

Not to get too off-topic but the Court of James IV from the 1490's until Flodden in 1513 would belie that assumption (some historians claim with authority that James IV was the quintessential...

I just heard this news and although Trefor and I had never actually met in person we shared some interests in common and were friends on Facebook and X Marks the Scot. I am actually quite shocked and...

Congratulations to you both Bren,

I would consult your bride to be, and as you are open to either go with what she prefers. :)

It is a tricky thing to navigate without hurting peoples' feelings about their identity, but when I first visited America (Massachusetts) as an adult, I was a little taken aback by people who came...

I agree about the accessories Rex, and personally although I like the colour I would prefer it with gauntlet cuffs.

You both look very smart. Congratulations to Brother Bill III on joining the line of your Lodge.

Happy Birthday Steve! Remember, there's many a fine tune played on an auld fiddle!

One that I often hear with London media types (particularly those who write for The Guardian newspaper) which grates on my ears, is a reference to, the Scottish when talking about the Scots as a...

The Maggie (Ealing Comedy of 1954)
Gregory's Girl (1980)
Yangtze Incident, Escape of the Amethyst (1956)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
The Dambusters (1955)

If I had to pick only five it would be...

My father is 76 years old (b.1939) and the kilt was part of Scout uniform in his (and mine a generation later) Scout troop, (2nd Uddingston, 107th Lanarkshire), and tweed THCD day-wear was his Sunday...

My experience of visiting France is limited to Bordeaux when I was a small boy in 1970, travelling to Switzerland through eastern France with an overnight stop at an hotel about an hour south of...

I have tentative plans to go for the Saturday with my wife, my son. and family friends if we can make all the pieces fall into place:)

The Colour that is displayed during the Trooping of the Colour ceremony is the 'Regimental Colour' of whatever Regiment of Foot Guards (Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots, Irish, and Welsh) whose Colour...

Without in any way being political this is sadly also my experience with what is properly the Queen's Colour. Misappropriated and politicised by certain individuals and groups with a sectarian...

The Saltire Cross of St Andrew (also the St. George's Cross, and the St. Patrick's Saltire Cross) are as I understand it under UK Flag protocol only flown in a secondary position when the Union...

You're making me a little homesick there, Father Bill. My Grandpa kept a wooden yacht (sailboat) called the Mairi Bhan on Loch Lomond when I was a boy and we often ate at the Inchmurrin Hotel. One...

Peelie Wallie where I come from (Uddingston - seven miles south-east of Glasgow city-centre) means to be pale or off colour.

Happy Birthday Wizard, and many happy returns of the day!

Happy New Year when it arrives wherever you may be around the World. My best wishes for an excellent 2015 to one and all!

Oh I understand British humour just fine, being from Glasgow. A town famous for being many an English comedians music hall comic graveyard. The article just wasn't funny.

Indeed Jock, the article is poor and at best a very personal anecdote. When I was younger Hogmanay was a day to prepare for a fresh start to the New Year. I have known funerals brought forward so...