Northeast Florida Scottish Games and Festival

**dparrothead1** · 23rd February 12, 11:08 AM

I will be there.....my first public appearance in a kilt!!!

**Kinetikat** · 24th February 12, 12:45 PM

Hi,

if it doesn't sound like a totally stupid question... why are there Games going on at this time of year? Is it not too cold? Or am I just not thinking tropically enough?

Here in Northumberland, it's blimmin' freezing, with gale force winds scouring the frostbitten birds off the treetops and lashing the rain horizontal. I'm assuming that can't possibly be the case with the Games that have been happening in the US (like the Queen Mary and now this one) over the last couple of weeks, otherwise there'd be no audience, just a bunch of frozen, soaking-wet athletes huddled in the middle of a big empty showground...

Actually, that sounds a bit like the afternoon of the North Berwick Games last year... absolutely poured down for the Heavy Events!

**dparrothead1** · 24th February 12, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Kinetikat

Hi,

if it doesn't sound like a totally stupid question... why are there Games going on at this time of year? Is it not too cold? Or am I just not thinking tropically enough?

Here in Northumberland, it's blimmin' freezing, with gale force winds scouring the frostbitten birds off the treetops and lashing the rain horizontal. I'm assuming that can't possibly be the case with the Games that have been happening in the US (like the Queen Mary and now this one) over the last couple of weeks, otherwise there'd be no audience, just a bunch of frozen, soaking-wet athletes huddled in the middle of a big empty showground...

Actually, that sounds a bit like the afternoon of the North Berwick Games last year... absolutely poured down for the Heavy Events!

Not to hurt your feelings, but right now it's 82 degrees and I live about 15 miles from the fairgrounds!!

**warrior** · 24th February 12, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by Kinetikat

Hi,

if it doesn't sound like a totally stupid question... why are there Games going on at this time of year? Is it not too cold? Or am I just not thinking tropically enough?

Here in Northumberland, it's blimmin' freezing, with gale force winds scouring the frostbitten birds off the treetops and lashing the rain horizontal. I'm assuming that can't possibly be the case with the Games that have been happening in the US (like the Queen Mary and now this one) over the last couple of weeks, otherwise there'd be no audience, just a bunch of frozen, soaking-wet athletes huddled in the middle of a big empty showground...

Actually, that sounds a bit like the afternoon of the North Berwick Games last year... absolutely poured down for the Heavy Events!

Last report from that part of Florida was that it had already approached or surpassed eighty degrees fahrenheit this year. I'm about four hours north of there and it was above seventy yesterday here just south of Atlanta, GA. For us folks in the deep south spring has sprung. The star magnolias have already come and gone, the daffodils are in full force having started as early as New Years for me here in Atlanta, the forsythia is getting cranked up and my bees are in full production mode producing brood for the main bloom next month.
If you note the schedule for the southern games there is a large span from about May to October (Grandfather Mountain being the exception but that one is in NORTH Carolina and on top of a mountain to boot) with nothing scheduled, there is a reason for that. We really only have a few months out of the year of really nice weather the rest of the time it's either wet and nasty or hotter than hades.

**eaglemo** · 24th February 12, 07:23 PM

The NE Florida Games will be held on Feb.25th at Green Cove Springs, Florida. The weather that day is predicted to be around 60 degrees (f) and windy. It has been very warm in Florida this winter, with only a few days of colder weather.

**piperdbh** · 24th February 12, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by Kinetikat

... why are there Games going on at this time of year? Is it not too cold? Or am I just not thinking tropically enough?

You're just not thinking tropically enough.

I wish more US Games would happen in the cool months. Wearing your woolens in 80+F heat is not as much fun as it might sound.

**warrior** · 24th February 12, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

You're just not thinking tropically enough.

I wish more US Games would happen in the cool months. Wearing your woolens in 80+F heat is not as much fun as it might sound.

I wonder if "going regimental" didn't develop in the colonies. Almost every area of the empire, other than Canada, was more tropical than the British Isles.

**piperdbh** · 24th February 12, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by warrior

I wonder if "going regimental" didn't develop in the colonies. Almost every area of the empire, other than Canada, was more tropical than the British Isles.

If it did, then baby powder was invented shortly thereafter!