Cricket & Kilts

[Mike_Oettle]

Lady Grey, I would love to see the final product of this “purple tartan with silver threads that will be a mini kilt with a bustle!”

[Lady Grey]

Shall do Mike
It's gonna be loud.....
However since it has flat aprons, pleats (probably box pleats) and wraps around the body it is a Kilt and I won't be told otherwise!

[Mel1721L]

So I'm just a little bit excited down here in Melbourne.
The Ashes has started! I'm trying my hand at hand stitching a kilt while I watch.
Are any XMarkers attending any of the matches in a Kilt?

And I have no idea why my picture are the wrong way around

I heard there are some Australian cricket bats for sale, never been used.

[Grizzled Ian]

All out?


for 60?



. . . oh . . .

I spent yesterday with Steve and Kilted Knome learning heaps more in the premises of Freedom Kilts. And in the passenger seat of the big dark blue cat on a tour of the City of Gardens. I'd better start buying a lottery ticket so I can come back some time with my good lady.

But not during an Ashes tour. It's too . . .

it's just too


sad

[kilted scholar]

A little while ago I was at the Cheltenham Festival - the cricket one. For those who haven't been there Gloucestershire play two championship matches each year at the College Ground. It is a major occasion, one of the highlights of the summer. It is a quintessentially English scene; well attended, with a ring of marquees, good food and drink in abundance, with the splendid old College chapel and a range of Regency buildings at the back, with the line of the Cotswolds beyond. The weather was fine and sunny and the cricket held interest all day.

I had been conversing occasionally with some around, discussing this and that about the game in progress. Shortly before the end, a man sitting nearby got up to leave and, on his way out, said to me, "you're the smartest man in the ground." Naturally, I supposed this to be a reference to the comments I had made now and again during the course of the day. So for a minute or two I basked in the belief that our friend had recognized the incisiveness of my remarks and the breadth of my knowledge. What a percipient chap he was, I thought! What smug self-satisfaction deluded my mind! However, suddenly another idea dawned on me. Perhaps it was a comment on the kilt I was wearing (Caledonia tartan).

[Lady Grey]

Well the men lost the Ashes, the women won the Ashes
Clarke is gone, we're winning this one... And of course the Kilt matches the shoes!

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[Lady Grey]

Hope this works

[Mike_Oettle]

I like it, and I think my daughter would approve (even though she says she dislikes tartan just because I am so keen on it!).
Well done, Lady Grey.

About the Ashes, no comment from me. But my anglophile wife (her father and maternal grandmother were born in England) is very pleased.

[Tarheel]

Hope this works

I hope, dear Lady, that there is a bonnet to go with this fine suit (thinking of Polo match attendants) and a fine tradition of racing in Kentucky (The Running of the Roses). Would seem a waste to swoon under a blazing sun wearing such a fetching outfit (unless one was to be rescued by the arm of a dashing batter), then a parasol might be fitting and easily set aside.