The finished product😀 28lbs is heavier than I thought, going to need to weight train hard for a while
before I go hoiking this beauty. Paint job next
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Hi, I have unsuccessfully tried to get a 28lb throwing weight together for ages and then yesterday had a brainwave.
I had bought a number of 2 and 2.2 and 2.3lb weights recently fro the tip shop and...

What a revelation these images are! Just goes to show how people can stylize a practical garment to become almost a parody of itself, no long really performing it's natural function. Pretty normal I...

Great story Jock, I like the sound of Mr McPherson indeed 😀 Nice to be Old World and do things like dress as a Scot from the Victorian era or read Sir Walter's or Stevenson's novels or eat haggis or...

Great to get your experiences of wearing the plaid, it rarely ever gets even as cool as mid summer in Scotland where I live (Queensland, Australia) but after several years down south I learnt how...

I love a real practical story, thanks for sharing your adventure 😀 It's very interesting that you say that a wet plaid and kilt holds the heat in better, I used to surf a lot in winter and it's...

A very sensible approach 😀

Thanks Peter :) What's your opinion regarding what appear to be Day Plaid's pinned by a broach at the shoulder in the Macleay paintings?

I just realised that you are the gent who posted the excellent 'how to' about making your day plaid. I am going to refer a lot to it when I have mine made.
What length of single width tartan do you...

A great photo! You look very dapper indeed :) What tartan is that?
Something shocked me the other day, my kilt makers who are excellent, extremely experienced (40 years) and Scottish trained, have...

Yes, I am having a length of Old Stewart woven in the original Wilson's of Bannockburn thread colours and so I am getting enough to give me a good day plaid as well as my kilt. I have always thought...

After reading the threads here about plaids and particularily the day or 'Laird's' plaid I began researching it for myself and I was surprised to discover that the day plaid in the past wasn't just...

As Bruce so well posted, a Remittance man was a young reprobate sent away to a far flung outpost of Empire and sent a regular remittance of money with the charge that he should stay away. The wealthy...

I certainly will thanks!:)

My apologies that I haven't visited the forum for quite a while. In my last thread about Mr DW Stewart I lamented that I could no longer access the STA webpage where I believed I had read that Mr...

We must be a similar vintage Richard :)
just come back to PB snare after a sabbatical of 30 years!
Incredibly I am training under my first great teacher Buzz Ennis who is a legendary Australian...

Many thanks! I think what I like best is looking like one of the judges at a 50's Highland Games or one of the Highland gents from Semples beautifully illustrated book from the 40's :-)
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Thanks mate, will do. Pity you wont be there!
I managed an orchard at the Summit for 6 months in 1980.
Love the place!
PS your kilt sounds great, have you posted photos?

3694736948Doesn't often get chilly here in the North of Australia yet I have been dreaming of getting a nice Tweed Argyle jacket and vest for quite a while.
I bought this Highland Green jacket from...

My 3rd cousin Peter from Western Australia wrote this to me today regarding the place where DW Stewart may have lived and died after leaving Bonny Scotland -
'Coolgardie was and still is the wild...

I have a relative in W.A who is a geneologist/ family historian so have just written to him for tips. He might be able to actually go to the site (or not, I think Coolgardie's about 500km out in the...

Well spotted and great find Bruce. So Donald William couldnt be our man as he was too young however the Donald Stewart (61 yrs) on the line above appears to be buried in the plot right beside him!...

It's an interesting mystery and getting more interesting Peter!
see below my reply to Bruce Scott.
I dont know if it would help much but if you had someone there who could access your websites main...

Sorry I haven't posted to this thread for a wee while.
I feel 99% certain that I read the biography of D.W.Stewart (author of 'Old and Rare Tartans' 1893) on the STA website and feel sure that I...

Thanks Peter, I just dropped you a line per email.
What a terrific thing to meet DC Stewart. I wonder if he kept in contact with his father?
Cheers!