Souvenir Title Plots, Fake Titles, Laird, Lord and Lady

[Seawolf]

It seems that I remember my parents being approached with an offer to buy a "great Piece of land" in Florida quite some years back. As cautious as they were, with research the "land" was Swamp! No intent on conservancy, preservation, reservation or saving anything.

Point be taken, "Buyer be ware" If it seems to good to be true then perhaps it is.

Latha math agaibh!

Seawolf

[The Wizard of BC]

I happen to have one of these pieces of paper. My thoughtful wife gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago. I have it hanging on the wall at the kilt shop.

So yes, I'm one of the three "Lairds of Lochaber" on X Marks.

I knew at the time what I was getting. A pretty piece of paper to hang on my wall. I would have been just as pleased with a piece of art but my wife supprised me with a frame-able "title" to 1 square foot. I could not be more pleased.

Perhaps one day I'll visit my plot. Perhaps I'll take one of those tiny David Winter castles and arrange it for a photo as was done with the little gnome house above.

What better excuse to spend a few hours walking over some pretty land than to pretend to look for my "long lost, ancesteral fishing estate".

As we have "nonarmigerious clans, and in light of the recent statement quoted in this post, I have decided to call my estate an "nontiteligionous estate".

I thank my wife Bobbie for presenting me with an excuse to put somthing in my signature block here on X Marks. Knowing full well what I was given and why I proudly sign my posts here.

"Steve Ashton, Second Laird of Lochaber".



p.s. Fair warning ---- If I happen to catch any of you attempting to steal any of the cattle on my estate just remember, I have a knife in my sock.

[Inchessi]

I see this more along the lines of when I had a star named after my wife. Only she didn't get a title. I guess I could call her "Overlord", I am used to sleeping on the couch.

[Oldhiker]

I am a Laird of Lochaber as well, someday I will stand on my sqft of land and survey all that is mine. LOL that will be a sight in itself as I have trouble seeing my feet unless I sit down. I bought back on 2006 knowing it was all in fun and registered in my family name 400years ago-Lamont, knowing we no longer own any ancestrol lands in Alba. The certificate is framed and on my den wall.

[Laird_M]

Actually, I'm also a Lochaber.

Its strange how people can get so hung up about these titles.

As a leaving present for a colleague who was thinking of buying a croft as he'd already made plans to retire to the Highlands, we bought him one and when he found out that it wasn't quite what he thought it was, one of the guys told him I had a plot about 15ft from him, he got very, very upset about it as he thought it was a unique title with the full trimmings.

When I pointed out that a 'real title' costs around £50,000 and rapidly upwards, he got even more annoyed...

[ohiopiper]

I've got a square foot of Scotland, thanks to a bottle of scotch. Got the nifty piece of paper to prove it. It's mine! All mine! Well, alright. It actually isn't. But it IS in good fun. The people I kinda feel sorry for are the ones who buy into it thinking they really can buy a title.

[MacSpadger]

To all our USA based Scottish "Lords, Ladies & Lairds", there are probably an equal percentage of Scotsmen who would be ecstatic to gain the title of Kentucky Colonel.