Lonach march on Braemar Castle

[sailortats]

Alan, if I am not mistaken most of the orders given to the men was given in Gaelic with the notable except of "assume a lazy posture".
I was giving a tour of one of the ships in our maritime museum today to a group of Sea Scouts. When they came on board they all lined up in 2 ranks. Before I started my talk about the ship I was sorely tempted to order them to "assume a lazy posture" but I didn't. I am sorry now that I didn't as it would have been fun to see their reactions.

[neloon]

Alan, if I am not mistaken most of the orders given to the men was given in Gaelic ...

Ummm.., yes. But, without wishing to be rude, I'm afraid that Sir James has learned his wee bit of Gaelic by the syllable and it's almost unintelligible and Captain Alwyne Compton Farquharson's Gaelic is not much batter. You have to remember that these gentlemen would nowadays have very little "Scottish" DNA, being descended from marriages almost exclusively to non-Scottish ladies, having for generations gone to English public schools and not actually living in Scotland today (Captain Farquharson farms in Norfolk and Sir James lives in California). Sorry if that takes away some of the romance.
Alan