Hi from NZ

[Kiltsnquilts]

Looks like kilts are now international! (I've known that for a long time really.) I'm a Scotsman living in the English midlands. I love Edinburgh (though I come from the rival city, Glasgow). I'd love to go up there for a holiday, but the Covid-19 lockdown is keeping me away.

My husband is a weegie! We haven't been back to Edinburgh since we left in 1990 and it would have been at least that long since we were in Glasgow too.

Yes Covid has put the brakes on a lot of travel plans! Enjoy your trip when you get there.

[Kiltsnquilts]

Croeso from a Welsh cilt wearer, currently living in the Netherlands.

I have yet to make a kilt in a Welsh tartan. My Dad was born in Merthyr Tydfil and his family originate from the Pontypridd area a few generations back.

[Blaidd]

I have yet to make a kilt in a Welsh tartan. My Dad was born in Merthyr Tydfil and his family originate from the Pontypridd area a few generations back.

I look forward to seeing the results....

[tpa]

A warm Scottish welcome from central England. I have to admit that on a brief visit to NZ a few years ago, I saw more kilts than I would normally see on a visit to Scotland, Highland games excepted. Mainly school children and pipers but more kilts in one day than on several in Edinburgh, when I only saw 2 and one of those was a shop assistant in a kilt shop.

[Kiltsnquilts]

A warm Scottish welcome from central England. I have to admit that on a brief visit to NZ a few years ago, I saw more kilts than I would normally see on a visit to Scotland, Highland games excepted. Mainly school children and pipers but more kilts in one day than on several in Edinburgh, when I only saw 2 and one of those was a shop assistant in a kilt shop.

Yes I often get asked by non kilt wearers if there is a market for kilts in NZ! I am certainly not short of work!!

[tpa]

Yes I often get asked by non kilt wearers if there is a market for kilts in NZ! I am certainly not short of work!!

I'm not surprised, the NZ population seemed to regard kilt wearing as nothing unusual. When I was there, I wore my kilt every day and I never heard any of the horn tooting or inappropriate comments I very occasionally get subjected to over here in Derbyshire.

[OC Richard]

Welcome from Sunny Southern California!

(Actually it's been foggy and hazy all week.)

So cool, your life story.

My wife and I came close to having Scottish-born weens. She's a cartographer and many years ago the owner of a Scottish mapping firm was touring my wife's California mapping firm.

He was walking about the facility, dropping by the various cartographer's cubicles and chatting about the then-new cartographic software my wife's firm was using, that the Scot's firm was in the process of acquiring.

In my wife's cubicle he saw photos of our honeymoon in Scotland, a wedding photo with me kilted, and so forth.

He said "so, you fancy Scotland?"

"Oh, yes, as you see we did our honeymoon there."

"Would you like to live there?"

As it happened, he wasn't just gathering information about transitioning to the new software, he was recruiting people who were already familiar with it, to train his staff in Edinburgh.

Had my wife accepted we would have been living in Scotland for 30 years now and both our kids would have been born there. But alas the kids are Californians through and through.

[Kiltsnquilts]

I'm not surprised, the NZ population seemed to regard kilt wearing as nothing unusual. When I was there, I wore my kilt every day and I never heard any of the horn tooting or inappropriate comments I very occasionally get subjected to over here in Derbyshire.

Actually, I think that NZ is more tolerant of anyone wearing anything that isn't mainstream. You could walk down the Main Street wearing gumboots and a top hat and not get a second glance haha. You could wear anything from trackies or jeans to a full formal suit to a wedding and not look/be made to feel out of place. I love that!

[Kiltsnquilts]

Welcome from Sunny Southern California!

(Actually it's been foggy and hazy all week.)

So cool, your life story.

My wife and I came close to having Scottish-born weens. She's a cartographer and many years ago the owner of a Scottish mapping firm was touring my wife's California mapping firm.

He was walking about the facility, dropping by the various cartographer's cubicles and chatting about the then-new cartographic software my wife's firm was using, that the Scot's firm was in the process of acquiring.

In my wife's cubicle he saw photos of our honeymoon in Scotland, a wedding photo with me kilted, and so forth.

He said "so, you fancy Scotland?"

"Oh, yes, as you see we did our honeymoon there."

"Would you like to live there?"

As it happened, he wasn't just gathering information about transitioning to the new software, he was recruiting people who were already familiar with it, to train his staff in Edinburgh.

Had my wife accepted we would have been living in Scotland for 30 years now and both our kids would have been born there. But alas the kids are Californians through and through.

That is a cool story, it is funny to think what could have happened! I love Scotland and loved living there.