What day is it

[Benning Boy]

There is a loud tartan in yellow, red, blue and white in commemoration of some important day in Scottish history. I can't remember its name. Can you tell me what it is?

As I age I find it often takes a day or two to recall some things i want to remember right now.

[JohnnyO]

Could it be "Culloden" in modern colours, or, failing that "Jacobite".

[OC Richard]

You probably mean the Declaration tartan



It's based on the two Scottish flags.

Here's the thread about this tartan

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-tartan-87937/

[SimplyStuart]

You probably mean the Declaration tartan



It's based on the two Scottish flags.

Here's the thread about this tartan

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-tartan-87937/

man that is a stunning tartan

[Benning Boy]

Thanks, Richard, that's the one. The only thing I could come up with is proclamation day, but I knew that wasn't quite right. I find as I age, and its odd, is that I often can remember the first letter of something but not the full word, until eventually the full word appears. The letter d came to mind but nothing further.

[OC Richard]

You're welcome!

I too often remember only the first letter- strange how the brain works!

I've come to use mnemonic devices to remember streets, people's names, etc.

Sadly the fact that I work at a place where everybody has to wear name-tags functions as an enabler for my inability to remember names.

About that tartan, funny that one man's "loud" is another man's "stunning". Yes to both, but I do admire the design, because it does something quite difficult to do well: make a tartan out of a flag. This tartan took on a yet harder task: combining two flags.