It's a bit of an aside but my go-to raingear is a RN surplus coat that has a zip-out liner. Somehow it found it's way across the pond. It's long enough to cover all but the last inch or so of a kilt....

Help a poor colonial out. XX/XX as a price is shillings/pence? Given the salaries listed, I hoping it's not pounds/shillings.
My maternal grandfather left England in 1912. Maternal grandmother in...

The title is self-explanatory. Likely NSFW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehlkjUw3ESU

I seem to be wasting a lot of time on YouTube over the last several months.
Today I discovered "The Highland Subaltern" channel, a WWI Black Watch reenactor. ...

I was researching after MichiganKyle's comments about an attempt to revive a local curling club. The wonders of algorithms ( and the web) showed me this.
It is 1936.
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I had also seen this challenge and thought it was a wonderful idea. Not enough that I stepped up-yet.

Welcome. Here's what I did. I did lurk for a while building my knowledge base.
O.C. Richard's thread on sporrans gives great insight for buying a quality sporran. Read it, pay attention and then one...

The Michigan Department of Transportation has copied that idea and was running a contest to name the plows. 250 plows to name.

https://www.michigan.gov/som/0,4669,7-192-29907-549772--,00.html

I once was an avid builder who alternated from planes to cars and back. That was back in what could be called the golden age of kits in the 1960's . Once I got older then the scale of the cars...

Midway through " A Voyage Long and Strange, Rediscovering The New World" by Tony Horowitz. It's a history of Spanish exploration of the North America. It's actually a fairly good read but I've been...

I'll need need to add a belated Happy Birthday. Thanks for bring the world of kilts together.

Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie? Still available on some NPR stations. I've been a listener for years. It's not as available as it was when I first started but still out there.
She did move...

All three parts tied as one are here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3Zmkgt2no

Happy New Year to all.

One of the things that I appreciate about this forum is the depth of knowledge and experience that appears here. I half expected a retired RSM to weigh in on this topic. The last two film clips were...

June 6th is our anniversary. My wife claims it was chosen because, as an historian and consumer of military history, it was a date I wouldn't forget. I contend that it was the first Saturday...

Using the Holderness Family to pass time lately has become kind of a bad habit. I use YouTube and will get sucked down the rabbit hole with some very good song parodies.

YouTube threw this story at me yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejKzgyLLJHM
I don't know who won the Kilt v. Trews battle. It's likely it happened again as more amalgamation happened. My...

And three shall be thy number. Not two and not four. Or words to that effect.

It was a cool morning in West Michigan, just above freezing. I stoked up the stove and fired up the computer.
We've been fans of Dougie's after hearing him on "A Prairie Home Companion". We even...

As the link was killed, a quick You-Tube search brought the video up. And sent me down the rabbit hole of parodies. Queen, more Queen, even more Queen, Billy Joel, and MC Hammer. I'm sure there will...

They look a lot more like "Sammies", Samoyeds than Huskies. Also sled dogs but not quite the same. The earset isn't quite right for a Siberian. Also most have the "trademark" Sammy smile.
Years...

As many of you may know, Jim Ramsey posts a lot of videos to You Tube featuring the RRS and other British Military units. Mostly bands. Today he posted 2 Scots parade in Glasgow. The pipers still...

I hadn't studied the photos earlier. I just gave a cursory look. The right hand Sargent's jacket has a Canada shoulder patch. I don't know enough about British uniforms. With that could it still be...

While there was a rudimentary colour photography process about this time, it's pretty rare. Colour photographs don't become commonplace for candid/home use until Kodachome is invented in the 30's....

I found the drummers interesting. The snare drummers used a style I associate more with the Royal Marines than Army units. Perhaps of 50 years, the army has changed. It could also be a "parade" style...