traditional vs. classic

[creagdhubh]

Below is a photo of my wife and I at a local favorite Scottish pub called, 'The Scottish Arms,' here in St. Louis. It is owned and operated by an Aberdeen Scot, Alastair Nisbet. Excellent traditional Scottish food and a single malt collection that rivals all the distilleries in bonnie green Alba! I wear one Golden Eagle feather in my bonnet, because I am a Scottish Armiger, which means I have matriculated arms of an ancestor from the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh. I petitioned my grant for arms about a year and a half ago and was granted the arms of an ancestor in the direct male line of my father's lineage-as it is not recognized on the female line (i.e-you cannot be granted arms if your ancestor is apart of your mother's side of the family).