Photos from Fergus 2007

**Canuck** · 12th August 07, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

A kilt do. If you break your leg do wear a kilt

Actually this guy blew out his knee in the Heavies on Friday. He is an amazing competitor. He was suppose to go in on Sunday for an emergency knee operation. Hopefully he recoups well enough for next season

**McMurdo** · 12th August 07, 08:56 PM

It rained off and on today, mostly on, but it was good Scottish weather

Interesting choice of sporran...

Peter and his and Sandy's beautiful daughter Soraya

That is it for the photos I can share with with you, it was a great weekend, see you next year.

**Canuck** · 12th August 07, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

That is it for the photos I can share with with you, it was a great weekend, see you next year.

What you don't have the photo's of the sporran parade of the three pipers and three drummers in the campground at three thirty this morning?! A sight to see! well maybe

**Archangel** · 13th August 07, 01:30 PM

This guy, by the way, was pretty cool. We were watching him in the tent on Saturday. Little kids were coming up and asking to pose with him. Some of the kids would hold his Wallace sword, bigger than them, and he'd pose with their little plastic chrome ones.

To us, somehow, he carried it off and looked like somebody the event hired to keep the mood.

By the way, not to go too sideways on this, I don't know how it is stateside but here in Ontario, a surprising number of swords are worn by all combinations of people at Highland Games. This was especially true here.

No police were kilted this year, at least I didn't see any. They have been in the past.

**McMurdo** · 13th August 07, 01:37 PM

Yea he was cool, it was good to met you Archangel even though it was just for a minute, I hope to be able to meet you properly in the future.

**Kilted Stuart** · 13th August 07, 01:40 PM

There is a photo of me holding up a can of beer. It looks like I have been hit with a shovel. I can assure you I didn't look that bad until much later in the evening. A good time was had by all.

Great pictures of the weekend, a good time was had by all.

It was nice to see some old friends and meet a few more. Lots of x-marks rabble around, not enough time to really talk until later at the pub or the festivities back at tent central. The rabble on Saturday night for the Mudmen was a lot of fun. Enjoyed the weekend and the success we had at the CCK booth. Thanks Glen for standing in for me on Sunday. I rarely get a migraine like that, put me down most of the day, but I'm sure Pete appreciated the extra hand. Thanks also to Glen for being a little selective on what pictures to post from Sat. night. Sometimes what happenes at the Mudmen must stay at the Mudmen.

Hope to see all back again next year.

Kilted Stuart

**Archangel** · 13th August 07, 01:43 PM

I'm not sure if this Kilt Don't picture is the customer referred to. Out of respect to Xmarks vendors, and their customers, it's probably bad form to draw attention to someone trying to get it right.

I'd hate to think that someone would be talking to Rob, hear about this site, look it up, "Oh, look, there's a thread on Fergus, I was there. Oh, look there's us at Rob's. What's it say? Oh, never mind! Rob, cancel the kilt order."

That's just me. I know I'm too cynical. However, there was a big kilt shop tent across the road from our guys, it has some Gaelic sort of name. I wasn't happy with dealing with them when I found the same item half the price at another tent, if you want to make fun of their customers...

**auld argonian** · 13th August 07, 01:44 PM

re: the sword thing...

...I'm always surprised at the number of thirteen year old kids who are running around at the Highland Games dragging their huge-@$$ Wallace swords around behind them...MY parents never let me have a humongous sword when I was a teen ager!

I'll always excuse the Clan Gunn horde...that's just part of their mission statement and they're GROWNUPS...but even though most of those swords are made for show and not for blow, I don't know what's going on in the parents minds letting these kids run around with any kind of sword-like object.

Best

AA

**Panache** · 13th August 07, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Archangel

...By the way, not to go too sideways on this, I don't know how it is stateside but here in Ontario, a surprising number of swords are worn by all combinations of people at Highland Games. This was especially true here.

A great number of people carry swords at the games that I've attended. It isn't my thing but I can sort of understand it when one is dressed in period garb and bearing a period weapon. Then the sword/dirk/replica pistol is just part of the costume (and I do mean costume). I do wonder at a couple of fellows I have seen wearing utilikilts, sloganed t-shirts, flip flops, and katanas. Whatever look they were trying for, they missed.

Cheers

Jamie