Comments on: Best Blog Posts 2007

By: Andrew Reynolds

Andrew Reynolds — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:01:21 +0000

Sinclair,
The wearing of anything associated with the rebellion (if you accept the English word for it) of 1745 was banned once it was put down. Once the ban was lifted and Scottish “traditional” dress became trendy under Victoria there was a lot of “reconstruction” (read faking) of old tradition. The same happened with Morris dancing and other stuff from the ancient past of the UK. Much of it was Victorian invention, based, sometimes, on fact.

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:37:03 +0000

The word ’scot’ in Russian means cattle.

By: Brendan Halfweeg

Brendan Halfweeg — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:24:18 +0000

Scotland - settled by Celts who thought Ireland wasn’t either cold or wet enough for the likes of them.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:57:06 +0000

When I was at St Andrew’s College at Sydney they had a clanbook with all the tartans in it — ran to hundreds of pages as I recall.

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:25:34 +0000

The distinctive clan tartans were adopted in the 19 century (maybe 18th, I’m working from memory), before that everyone wore any colour they liked. Arthur Herman sets this out in his excellent book “How the scots invented the modern world“. If I ever see that scotch I might buy it - the ads are very good. There are many others on YouTube - all very funny.

By: rog

rog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:24:50 +0000

Och nae, best not to mention Glencoe laddie…

By: Adrienswords

Adrienswords — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:34:47 +0000

Actually Rog I am a Campbell. It’s my middle name (my father’s too). I’m also a McDonald (on my mother’s side).
As I understand it there were various plaids/tartatns that were indicative of your village or home district and also by defualt your clan. The number of colours also indicated your status. But as you say this is all relatively recent and as the Celts spent more time throwing rocks at each other’s heads and didn’t write things down we don’t really know.

Thanks for that Sinclair. Dunno why I thought it was beer. the Scotch probably sux but I’d buy it just ’cause the ad was so good.

I was asking myself: is that Sharon Stone until…

Nuff said.

By: Bring Back CL's Blog

Bring Back CL's Blog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:57:18 +0000

stop it you are kilting me

By: rog

rog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:45:10 +0000

A highland fling could end up with a bag o pipes

By: rog

rog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:42:40 +0000

Nothing worse than go to bed with a tartan waking up with a haggis