See, now I'm bloody well hooked. Get one kilt and now I need six of them. Arrgh.

ANY-way.... I find that I can afford kilts in poly-viscose but da reel thing in wool is beyond my means. Well, OK, not beyond my means but I just can't bring myself to drop the cash. Cheap, that's me. Ergo, I've been snooping the various tartan sites and finally focused on poly-viscose. there's quite a selection in p-v, come to find out. I really like the Oakleigh tartan. Well, OK, says I, but what is "Oakleigh"?

A search on the web reveals that there's a district in Melbourne-Australia named "Oakleigh", and there's an historic mansion in Mobile Alabama named Oakleigh. However, all the tartan sites suggest that Oakleigh is in fact a Scottish tartan, but I canna find naething aboot it. There are some English references to the name "Oakleigh", but nothing Scots besides a bread and breakfast inn somewhere. Any insights?

On another note, turns out that the MacNaughton muted tartan is available in p-v. Huzzah! McKnight is a sept of MacNaughtan, so I wrote to the worldwide director of Clan MacNaughtan to ask permission to wear the clan tartan, and I'm copying part of his response to me, below.

***" On wearing the tartan, we do not give permission to wear our tartan, no-one does. Anybody can wear any tartan they wish. It is just common sense that a person wears a tartan that they can identify with, of which you can."***

My response was that I thought I'd be polite and ask, but obviously no such thing is truly necessary....as Hamish and others here on X-marks have been saying for some time. So, methinks me next kilt will be a MacNaughtan, muted in poly-viscose. Things could be worse, eh?