Two Telling comments? The Answer Perhaps?

[Jock Scot]

It is a super tartan though Alan! I just don't know if the Scots will buy the Wildcat tartan and I think the only thing that will persuade them to buy a non Clan Tartan kilt on top of the Clan tartan kilt that they have already, will be a stunning tartan attached to a not just a good but great cause. I think that there is a chance that this stunning tartan attached to the Scottish Wildcat might just get the Scots to break a habit of generations....... Perhaps? As you know, I have agonised about having a new kilt made out of that tartan and I can think of many reasons to justify doing so. Sadly though, my conservative tartan thinking, plus a dollop of sound Scottish financial common sense has won through.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with tourists as a whole, but I must confess that the dreaded two hour tartan justification lecture --with added pictures----- does wear pretty thin! In a fairly long life I have not developed a kind way of avoiding them!

I am a tourist on occasion too, but going on some of the antics that I see here from some of our visitors, a very small minority, I do try very, very hard not to behave like some do here and it really is not difficult!. The thing is that I see Scots behaving just as grimly as visitors to other countries. So some Scots are not any better! The thought occurs to me, do the other European countries have to suffer the equivalent of a tartan justification lecture?