The Kilted Gardener ?

[cessna152towser]

After donning the sporran and the boots over the polycotton kilt, to venture out in public briefly to post some letters this morning, it felt like being back home within a few minutes, kilted up with nowhere to go and being a dry mild morning I wandered back outside with my morning mug of coffee. The garden was looking untidy. When I finish this coffee, I'll just get the claw and knock out a couple of weeds. Then I decided I could do a bit more with the hoe. It developed into a full blown impromptu and spontaneous gardening session right through till lunchtime. Chatted to my neighbour and then to the window cleaner who called round and neither commented on the kilt, as though it was normal gardening attire. The kilt picked up a few plant burrs among the bushes, which didn't cling to the polycotton as much as they would with a proper wool kilt. The extra inch length compared to my dressy kilts proved more modest for the bending tasks involved. There's just no limit to the versatility of kilts for all purposes.

[McMurdo]

Nice pictures.
It really shows that you can do anything in a kilt.
I found a burr in the pleats of the kilt my dad gave me, it must have been there a while, he had not worn it for at least 40 yrs.
I had to make a few good natured comments about what he was doing
to get burrs in his kilt.

[Splash_4]

That second picture reminds me of the picture "American Gothic"! But good post about the versatility of the kilt!

[Warlock]

I really like the black kilt. It seems to be so versitile.

[Hamish]

I know exactly what you mean here, Alex. I have a workman's Utilikilt which is reserved for gardening/car washing/etc. I never receive any comments whatsoever when working outside, and I have a corner plot exposed to one busy and one quieter road. Even when I am working on the grass verges at the roadsides, there is not so much as a friendly, or aggressive, toot from passing vehicles.

By the way, when you have finished hoeing your garden you're very welcome to come down and help me clear the Autumn leaf-fall which, I am ashamed to say, still covers my lawns ....... it has been far too wet to get out there with my leaf blower/vacuum. I'll have no grass left by Spring!!!

PS: I cannot afford to pay you, but I'll keep you fed - I've plenty of Christmas left-overs!