I 'd just got to Scotland Aberdeen for 1st time to see the family.. Grandma, Granda etc ..

My Uncle Robert picked us up at the train station and I met my 2 girl cousins ..so we stayed at Grandparents and they form Buckie stayed at their Grandparents ..meanwhile we all went down to the beach ..it was windy chilly but nice ..we kids ..played they had like commando nets to climb on ..and there were wading pools which we all ..walked along the top like a balance beam ..till I fell in .

So I'd no dry clothes and my Auntie Chrissy said somebody'd give a kilt to her younger son ..so I wound up with it till .. the duds dried out .

then I got drummed outside to stand at the wall and directed to pose like I was doing a highland fling ..Ma tellin' me to do this and that arm up fingers pinched ..

Moral was ..I wore it so when my uncles told their soldier/service stories ..in Seaforths, Gordons or Argylls or Black Watch ..at least I had the gyst of it -without the early wake up calls .

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