Tartan Hiker: what you say is true, and this kilted life is a wonderful journey that I am glad to be on, even if I am a pioneer.

Gilmore: Thanks for the language lesson! Australians borrow from other languages and add their own flair. Much is borrowed from cockney (as my London-born father found when he brought us here).

Riverkilt: thanks for the encouragement. These lads were clearly not thinking right, I too was with my lady, my wife. They just reacted at what they don't understand. What annoyed me was their disrespect for others. They will improve with age or end up in prison.

McMurdo: I love my RKilt enormously. There was a time some years ago I would never ever consider a non-tartan. Robert converted me. His hemp kilts are far and away the most comfortable and hard wearing work kilts I have ever seen.