Firstly, a great series of images of the Harpenden Gathering we know and love so well. Thank you, Chas. I have attended the previous four annual events and I have to say, it looks and sounds as if nothing has changed at all this year! Still, I am glad you enjoyed it and, as others have said, perhaps we can pick up where we left off and have a wee meet-up at Harpenden again next year. Your 'Stick Man' is there every year and is a really nice sort of chap. We've chatted and been photographed together but I have never bought from him - I guess I am well enough provided for in the stick department!

As for your comments about the fellow in the photo above: that was precisely how I was instructed to wear my belt and sporran strap way back in the 1950s. There being no Internet in those days, I studied photos, sent for kiltmakers' paper catalogues and wrote to Highland Dress suppliers for guidance, because I was ignorant of many facts regarding what was right and what was wrong. Without exception I was advised to wear the waist belt through the loops and the sporran strap outside them. In all the years since then I have implicitly followed those guidelines and, in practice, that is the only way to wear them.

Take care,
Ham.