Spending Other People's Money

[cessna152towser]

There was a programme on BBC1 tonight, billed as the last in the series, (I didn't see any of the others) and was supposedly a fly in the wall documentary about a skinflint scot who was persuaded by his friend to spend more money on enjoying life. Wife was watching it and I wasn't intending to watch it until I noticed that both the guys were wearing kilts. It made really good viewing, not only the locations around Glasgow and Ayrshire where the guys went to the shops, bowling alley, pub etc. but also the kilts, various tartans and a navy blue self colour, teamed with matching hose or cream hose, with casual tops or jacket, collar and tie and they wore several different outfits during the programme. In about ninety per cent of the scenes they wore kilts. The kilts were not part of the story line, apart from one scene where they visit a kilt shop to buy a smarter sporran. I wish television would show more programmes like this where the "stars" appear perfectly natural in kilts as this woudl surely encourage more kilt wearing.

[kiltimabar]

When I saw the title of your thread, I thought it was going to be about politicians

[Sherry]

[dwg]

10 out of 10 for a Good Kilt programme I would as you say love to see more of the same, the two men looked perfectly natural in kilts this must encourage more kilt wearing

Derek

There was a programme on BBC1 tonight, billed as the last in the series, (I didn't see any of the others) and was supposedly a fly in the wall documentary about a skinflint scot who was persuaded by his friend to spend more money on enjoying life. Wife was watching it and I wasn't intending to watch it until I noticed that both the guys were wearing kilts. It made really good viewing, not only the locations around Glasgow and Ayrshire where the guys went to the shops, bowling alley, pub etc. but also the kilts, various tartans and a navy blue self colour, teamed with matching hose or cream hose, with casual tops or jacket, collar and tie and they wore several different outfits during the programme. In about ninety per cent of the scenes they wore kilts. The kilts were not part of the story line, apart from one scene where they visit a kilt shop to buy a smarter sporran. I wish television would show more programmes like this where the "stars" appear perfectly natural in kilts as this woudl surely encourage more kilt wearing.

[Hamish]

I too caught this programme quite by accident, and missed just the first five minutes or so. I wished I had been able to tape it but I cannot get my VHS machine to work since I connected a FreeView box (very poor FreeView reception here much of the time anyway!!).

It was a superb documentary and, as has been stated, showed these two very ordinary chaps wearing their kilts from very casually to semi-formally in a number of different locations. They were entirely natural and spontaneous and could have done quite a lot to open the eyes of those who scoff at every-day kilt wearing.

By the way, I am pretty sure that the plain blue kilt was in denim. It appeared to be virtually identical to the one I have from KiltStore.net.

Congratulations BBC!

[dwg]

I'm glad you watched it Ham I only thought after it finished about phoning you ! I should have recored it on DVD ??: I was hoping to see someone on xmarks saying thay had

Derek

I too caught this programme quite by accident, and missed just the first five minutes or so. I wished I had been able to tape it but I cannot get my VHS machine to work since I connected a FreeView box (very poor FreeView reception here much of the time anyway!!).

It was a superb documentary and, as has been stated, showed these two very ordinary chaps wearing their kilts from very casually to semi-formally in a number of different locations. They were entirely natural and spontaneous and could have done quite a lot to open the eyes of those who scoff at every-day kilt wearing.

By the way, I am pretty sure that the plain blue kilt was in denim. It appeared to be virtually identical to the one I have from KiltStore.net.

Congratulations BBC!

[Blu (Ontario)]

There was a programme on BBC1 tonight, billed as the last in the series, (I didn't see any of the others) and was supposedly a fly in the wall documentary about a skinflint scot who was persuaded by his friend to spend more money on enjoying life....

Sounds like reality TV has invaded Scotland as well.

...I wish television would show more programmes like this where the "stars" appear perfectly natural in kilts as this woudl surely encourage more kilt wearing.

It seems in todays media, it's encouraging to see something that's not negative.