Where is Jock Scot?

[Jock Scot]

There you are, you bugger! Good to see you back. Hope it's been a good season so far?

Hi Simon, its been a fantastic season and it going to keep going by the looks of it. The fishing has not been quite so good, but that's the way it goes sometimes. I will have to tot up how many days out on the moor I have had at the end of the season but suffice to say, rather a lot! I am down in Dorset on Monday partridge shooting and then a quick wizz up the M6 back to the grouse on the Tuesday! I dread to think how many miles I have done in the last few weeks, still, I have got a fair bit to catch up on, considering that only a few years ago, I was not supposed to ever venture out again!

I have worn my kilt out on the moor once for old time's sake------never again! I stood in the same butt that my father lost "the kilt pin" in. I have stood in it many times over the years, but never in the kilt before. A strange thing happened, the clip that fastened the pin came undone----its never done that before ,or since --------and it was only a wee bit of elastic band around the "prong" that stopped me loosing it again some 60 years after father lost it in the same place! Wierd?

That is not the reason why I shall not wear the kilt out on the moor again though! The reason? Ticks! I must have had to remove over thirty of the devils from my legs when I got home! I loathe those dastardly things!

Oh well, got to keep going!