Made out like a kilted bandit!

[frank_a]

What's with the Wallace tartan necktie Frank? I thought you were a Campbell.

Och! Interesting story here...

My dad's mom was a Campbell & a full blooded Scot, so yes, I was and am a Campbell. Then a few months ago I was invited to apply for membership with the St. Andrew's Society of Albany, NY. Membership requires you to be either directly from Scotland, or be able to prove a direct link through an ancestor. For all my 40 + years of genealogical research I have never been able to trace the Campbell line back to Scotland. I get held up with the 1802 birth of a Campbell grandfather in Canada, and can't seem to get back to his dad. But my grandmother's mom was a Wallace, and I can trace that line back to Scotland. So now I have an interest in the most recent line I can prove Scot descendancy.

Long story, but interesting. My next step next month is doing the ancestry.com DNA thing. I should know more then. I think...

Frank

[frank_a]

Frank, I have a very nice one I never wear anymore, the civilian Evening Dress width belt with a couple buckles, the standard chrome Celtic knotwork & bosses type, and a lovely heavy pewter stag & Celtic knotwork one from Glen Esk. I'd sell the belt and both buckles to you cheap. Nowadays I always wear the extra-wide "piper" size belt with a vintage buckle.

Here's the Glen Esk buckle I don't use, but mine is more shiny

i am interested, please contact me. Thanks!

Frank

[frank_a]

I forgot to mention another great gift I got for Christmas, not kilted, but Great Britain origination - complete mp3 collections of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, all their studio albums and a number of live ones. While I owned most of both groups on vinyl many years past, I never knew about "How the West Was Won," a 2003 release of live concert recordings from Zep's '72 tour in the states. Jimmy Page suggests it was their most creative time, and I can only agree!

Besides that, I got a very nice system3 winter jacket from Eastern Mountain Sports. It is going to come in real handy for the deep freeze we have coming!

Cheers!

Frank

[English Bloke]

Zep & Floyd complete... Can't go wrong with that.

Just a quick note on your smashin' bonnet, the cockade (the black ribbony bit) doesn't go over your left eye as a beret badge would, but it goes slightly forward of your left ear.

Found a thread here with some good advice from Jock Scot (and others) there-in.