Good Pictures, it reminds me of my old life, Edinburgh , Inverness, Skye..

The kilts Tartans were generally worn by the Gaels, Not the Scots, a very high proportion of Scots would have been in favour of the "tartan ban".

Out in the wilds of the highlands I would think...

I have 3 kilts all are family tartans, Dress , Hunting , and Black background, there's around 30 of them to choose from.
I used to live on Benbecula.. so would wear 1 District tartan.. Dark...

Here's a picture of the N gauge railway.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=39849&stc=1
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=39848&stc=1

My 1/76 EM gauge railway is based on May 29th 1940.
Based on Ludgershall station in Wiltshire.

However in 1907 this photograph of the Liverpool Scottish regiment was taken of troops marching down...

Most counties plough / gritters in the UK are named, two I've seen recently down here in Norfolk are grittygrittybangbang and gritosaurus.

Modelling?
N gauge model railway 2mm to the foot, Highland Railways, based on the Kyle Line. Size 15ft by 6ft

EM Gauge 4mm to the Foot, Midland and South Western Junction Railway. Will be 53ft...

Highly unlikely in the UK, most areas it's illegal due to covid to meet anyone other than your home family group, indoors. Except for socially distanced work.

I have a haggis in the freezer but that probably won't make it till Burns night so more will have to be bought.
The sailing club Burns night will almost certainly be cancelled as we are in near...

I've just come across this amazing piece of painting, on a railway modelling forum I frequent..


https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blogs/entry/24442-tartan-paint/

I think I shall research those surgical loupes, I could use them in modelling.

Since there is an outbreak of Railway modelling a couple of pictures of Mine which I inherited and am rebuilding.....

I'm still around and pop in most days, but when I'm at work it's set not to automatically log in, so you wouldn't know I was here..

As for Covid, Most of my life has had no change, go to work come...

In the RAF but...
Only if the extinguishers were brass,, but they weren't, they were painted red, with the appropriate band of colour for the extinguishers contents. But they did have to be...

Nothing changes, when the boots DMS that I was issued with in the 70s and 80s were replaced by more modern type boots they fell apart in hot temperatures..

The current boots sole falls apart in...

Well those who say they measure in Imperial measurements only, are wrong...

Why?


It's because in 1958 the Imperial inch was redefined as 25.4mm. (it took effect 1959) So every one measures...

Very interesting site, I hadn't realised the military had ever issued boot polish / dubbin. The site talks of its issue in WW2. But we certainly weren't issued with it by the 1970s we had to buy it...

Gaelic certainly was not discouraged at sgoil in the Hebridies or Inverness by the 1970s. Both my brother who is fluent and my younger sister who has to stop and think about it, learnt their...

The problem with most evidence is the fact that the photographs or paintings are of the wealthy or well off in best dress. Not what the Highlanders would have worn

I'm reading another book on...

If the RSM had seen him standing like that, he'd have had severe ear bashing. With what today would be a politically incorrect statement of his gender affiliation.

About not wearing shoes,..

I lived in the hebridies in the 1970s, a parent was brought before the authorities for sending His children to school without shoes. His attitude being, that he didn't...

That's a good formula for a well balanced man.

I'm wearing a proper filtered face mask, rubber gloves and overalls. I'm sanding down the new keel I've built for my sailing boat..

Definitely not kilt wearing work...

This is copied from a landrover forum the latest offering from Mr Robert Burns.

TAE A VIRUS
Twa months ago, we didna ken,
yer name or ocht aboot ye
But lots of things have changed since then,...

I attended Snowflake sailing club's Burns night which went very well, here's a link to the clubs facebook pages with a couple of photos and some videos.
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From the admittedly small picture I'm looking at he appears to be wearing on his left hip, this is where a saxon clothed person would wear his scrip or purse prior to the invention of pockets.