A STARZ Original Series From Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore: Outlander

[Ron Abbott]

Oh boy.......I never meant to stir up any trouble!

To those why may think I was being anti-American, I most certainly did not intend to be! By putting in the smiley I thought you'd understand that it was tongue in cheek.

Back in the early 1980s, I spent my summer holidays working for Stobo in J&R Glen in The Lawnmarket and then also worked for Duncan MacRae, another bagpipe firm, which was also in The Lawnmarket. Believe me, I saw and heard some rather unusual people (is the sufficiently pc?) from all over!

One was rather unusual (me being polite again) was the Scots-Egyptian, The 'Reverand' Cameron who used to play the bagpipes near the Mound, allegedly for charity. He used to wear the Cameron of Erracht and a church minister's top with a saltire on it. If you haven't come across this chap before, there is plenty accessible via google about his coloutful background.

Then there were the Americans (as well as others) who would tell me that their ancestors had been one of the pilgrim fathers (or similar), yet somehow had also been killed at Culloden. They didn't seem to have spent any time looking at the impossibly factor regarding dates!

Then there were those that would wear their 'clan plaid'.....which usually consisted of the kilt in that 'plaid', a tartan tie in it, a tartan tammy in it, hose flashes in it, as well as a clan belt buckle, clan kiltpin, clan cap badge etc. etc. etc. They couldn't understand why the locals sometimes looked at them with a smirk on the face!

Anyway, I am going off at tangents. This thread is about the Outlander series. Sorry for hijacking it.
But at the same time, I'm not apologising for saying that I thought the two books (and that 's all it was) were drivel. I genuinely believe that as I do that it's just more brigadoonery. Oh for sure, there'll no doubt be more tourists coming spending good money in Scotland to go and look at the various locations where the series is filmed, so I suppose there's a at least one good side to the story!