Lack of a good accessories market

[Jock Scot]

I can't make any guarantees but I believe a good leather belt would make many of those cons not seem so bad (I've never been stung once or had a tick while wearing mine ) (knock on wood )

Came off the hill yesterday after a short day,wearing plus fours, took off hose and pulled 11 ticks off one leg and 6 off the other.I have had the Lyme thing, so the thought of ticks going higher does not appeal! Honestly the kilt does not work on the hill.How our ancestors managed goodness only knows.

[george7]

People didn't know that ticks carried diseases until the late 1800's, and then didn't know lymphocytoma came from ticks until the 1950's.

[Jock Scot]

People didn't know that ticks carried diseases until the late 1800's, and then didn't know lymphocytoma came from ticks until the 1950's.

If I have understood the Lyme disease thing correctly, it was first identified in the USA.Is that right?

What I really meant by our ancestors coping, was the out on the hill in all weathers trying to eek out a living, in fairly hostile surroundings, never mind hostile neighbours! Not the tick bit. I am out and about in the same surroundings, clad in heavy tweed,gortex lined boots,gortex lined this that and the other and I am very glad to get back to a centrally heated house, Aga with the food cooking,light at the touch of a switch, having been out on the hill with a reliable rifle that knocks down a deer or three at 300 yards. I am not at all convinced that the "good old days" were really that good.

[JRB]

If I have understood the Lyme disease thing correctly, it was first identified in the USA.Is that right?

Correct. The disease is named for the town in which it was first identified; Old Lyme, Connecticut.