Depending how strong the questioner's heart looks, I'll either reply "It's a KILT" or I'll offer a little more detail: "It's a kilt. If I were wearing anything under it, it would be a skirt."

Last...

Do it, Anne! Put one change of clothes and a toothbrush into a BIG suitcase with all the yarn you can lay hands on, book your flights. Spend a sleepless weekend cranking out a lifetime supply of...

At about the time you posted that, I was snorkeling in a little puddle of it myself.

Did you then wash all the goat spit out of the Quaich, or just chuckle quietly while watching the next person drink?

Monstrously cool! Penny's a spinner so we go to wool gatherings quite often. I've been secretly coveting a sock machine for years. I always have to chuckle at the gathers that usually it's a guy...

They sell it half-empty like that?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a wee braw haggis,
My friends are all Scottish, it wouldnae e'er gag us
With a skirl of the pipes (played by Angus McTagus)
Lord, won't you buy me a wee braw haggis!
...

Well, there's some Lagavulin up there which is my absolute favourite Scotch.

I've discovered that Canada actually can boast two good whiskies (with apologies to those who think there are more than...

Happy Birthday, my friend!

Smokestack Haggis (Lightning) -- blues
My Haggis from Tokyo (Woman) -- rock
Haggis in My Hand (Home) -- rock
I Need a Haggis to Love (Man) -- blues/rock
Piece of My Haggis (Heart) -- rock
Haggis...

Well...

"Old" because I'm headin' that way -- old enough to know better and young enough to keep tryin'.

"Hippie" because my life happened at the same time a lot of people were engaging in an...

[snort]

I have a seasonal t-shirt with a picture of Santa's sleigh draped over a small hut with a moon carved in the door. Santa is lying in the snow, shaking his fist, and roaring "You idiots! I...

The aforementioned Charlie Bamforth was recently in town where he gave a wonderfully entertaining presentation to a group of brewers and microbiologists. He's originally from the UK and related that...

Well then, Lad, you need to be heading for Kamloops and pints at the Noble Pig.

I firmly hold with beer writer and scholar Charlie Bamforth when he says "My favourite beer is fresh and local."...

At least it wasn't a new Prince Albert! :rofl:

When I was a kid in Oregon we used to get gallons and gallons of fresh-pressed cider from the orchards in the Willamette Valley. Some we drank...

When my brother was a lad learning to read he made some classics. Our mum had a Hamilton-Beach mixer on the counter. It had a control that allowed the user to move the bowl back and forth under the...

Might have to re-heat these guys and re-harden them. It's high-carbon tool steel of some unknown type. I assumed that a hand-forged steel might not be hardened. (And I didn't have an oil quench set...

Richrail: Sidewalk Sundae! Love it. I did a kriek-like beer a few years ago and still have a couple of magnums of it in the cellar. It has a very "Belgian" character to it. Some love it, some hate...

This may wander a bit off-topic, my apologies...



I live in a place that's very poor in flint or chert. There are some chance encounters but mostly we have what my father used to call...

It's time to think about setting up summer beer -- those brews we make for the warmer season. (OK...you SouthHem folks can tell us about your winter beers!)

I've always been of more than one mind...

Sad news to see on this morning. My condolences to his family and friends, and to the friends he never met.

And Francis Scott Key wrote his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" intending it to be put to the music of "To Anacreon in Heaven" -- a British drinking song. So I was taught in school, anyway, and "teh...

Having just received a new (much larger) grain flaker/crusher, and having a nice bucket of tasty whole oats out in the root cellar, I'm sensing a plan here...

(Moistened grains flake, most dry...

Turpin,

Strength, grace, and peace go before you and behind you. Love, kindness and humour lift you and shelter you. Friends on all sides surround you. Hold strong.

Thanks, Dixiecat, for being...

Seems you've probably got the straight goods. As an immigrant from the U.S. I was surprised that Canadians do not treat the Maple Leaf with the same ceremony the U.S. treats Old Glory. Folding the...