I went to the Scottish Pipe Band Championship at Dumbarton last Saturday.
Unfortunately I and friends did only stay for a few short minutes.
The rain was relentless, it did not stop all day and continued into Sunday morning.
What can be a beautiful setting became a mud bath and certainly was not a day for the kilt.
We had booked bed and breakfast at an hotel in Arrochar, about 20 odd miles from Dumbarton, so shortly after 3pm we headed there.
In all my years in wearing a kilt, I have never been so wet as I was last Saturday, we were drenched again as we made 15 minute walk from our hotel to the restaurant we had booked for a evening meal.
Can I say hear that I do not own a cape or coat that is suitable to cover the kilt.
So Saturday afternoon,evening and Sunday was not very pleasant with only a damp and wet kilt to wear.

Sunday evening was spent carefully restoring the pleats in my kilt.
One thing is for certain, the kilt is not for everyday wear in Scotland when we have a climate like ours