winter is back.

[estimaa]

Too many nasties going about this year.

After getting over the stomach bug, only 3-4 weeks later we get attacked by the chest infection. That thing was a knockout with temperatures doing yoyo up to 39C and back.

That is the ONLY time in a year, I had to give up on the kilt for a week.
In fact for 3 days almost too weak to get out of bed..

Finally when all is almost over and the "earthquake" cough subsiding I went for a swim in the local lake. I reckon it was 6-8C.

The kilt had got filthy, so I smothered it as usual in detergent went for a swim, and then walked shirtless for the 800m or so to the showers.
Driving after, indications it was 5C, pouring rain, in fact in buckets.

You only get wet once, but after the sudden heat after leaving the water, it was for a HOT shower. (This lake is a man made, summer vacation thing, but in November there is nothing but swans and ducks).

The sensation of washing a kilt while wearing it, in HOT water, as it turns from cold to warm is difficult to describe.
It took the rest of the day to dry, this time hung up close to a radiator.

Feeling much better this evening with a clean kilt, it was all a bit overdue.

[Terry Searl]

Too many nasties going about this year.

After getting over the stomach bug, only 3-4 weeks later we get attacked by the chest infection. That thing was a knockout with temperatures doing yoyo up to 39C and back.

That is the ONLY time in a year, I had to give up on the kilt for a week.
In fact for 3 days almost too weak to get out of bed..

Finally when all is almost over and the "earthquake" cough subsiding I went for a swim in the local lake. I reckon it was 6-8C.

The kilt had got filthy, so I smothered it as usual in detergent went for a swim, and then walked shirtless for the 800m or so to the showers.
Driving after, indications it was 5C, pouring rain, in fact in buckets.

You only get wet once, but after the sudden heat after leaving the water, it was for a HOT shower. (This lake is a man made, summer vacation thing, but in November there is nothing but swans and ducks).

The sensation of washing a kilt while wearing it, in HOT water, as it turns from cold to warm is difficult to describe.
It took the rest of the day to dry, this time hung up close to a radiator.

Feeling much better this evening with a clean kilt, it was all a bit overdue.

Quite a novel way to wash a kilt and Likely the way a kilt was washed (Sans detergent) in the old days ......was there any damage to the kilts construction threads or pleats ?

[estimaa]

......was there any damage to the kilts construction threads or pleats ?

NO. But I discover a synthetic 8yd outlasts any pair of jeans by about a factor of 10:1.

After a year of more or less continuous hard daily use, it still comes out bright coloured and undamaged like the day I got it.
It's saved me a fortune in trousers/jeans in a year.

Other interesting observation.
I have a car which has heated seats.

I always thought it was the most stupid idea ever invented, and so does my wife.

A discovery!
It must be made for Kilt wearers.
Last 2 days with 0C outside, & a cold wind it's the BIZ if you wear a kilt (and know what you have to do when you get into a car and drive).