It's not that I don't love inhaling jet exhaust, or gratuitous displays of military might, or testosterone charged military service recruiting sessions , or even the opportunity to have my tax dollars go towards consuming extra barrels of oil so Exxon can top their record earnings from last quarter - it's the fact that I [...]
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For future reference: Make sign then get drunk This little error was duplicated on the North stage sign as well. the band had no end of fun with this spelling error. they kept saying things like "we're just the prefromers, you'll have to come back later for the fromers" Other posts you might enjoy: Falling [...]
Read MorePeople show up at the little grocery tents to pick up the Scottish delights that are so difficult to find around here throughout the rest of the year.Some of the foods don't surprise me in the least, such as the canned haggis (and vegetarian haggis), shortbread cookies, marmite, and Irn-Bru (like orange soda but a [...]
Read MorePart of the ritual of the Highland games is the massing of the bands. At moment's like these, it is not difficult to understand why the bagpipes were considered weapons of war. The piper in the blue and green kilt below is Tyrone. He is the Pipe Major for the Elliot Bay Pipe Band and [...]
Read MoreTricia at Shout brought this story to my attention and I want to repeat it here to do my part in helping spread the word.Gina of Lattes and Lipstick (which I'm adding to my rss reader right now) is raising money to pay for her husband's cancer treatment by compiling and selling an eBook of [...]
Read MoreThis weekend Mr. H, The Outlaw Baker (my little brother, Timmy), and I attended the PNW Highland Games. Mr. H was not competing this year so our presence at the games was entirely for the purpose of listening to some loud musiceating a lot of food (no haggis this year, we couldn't handle the 40 [...]
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