Got word at our gathering of cousins last month that one of my first cousins once removed - a young lady in her 20s - didn't think much of me wearing a skirt. Her mother, my first cousin, asked me to educate her.

When she arrived I went right to her and asked her if she liked my skirt. Told her politely that it is called a kilt, the traditional dress in the land of her ancestors, and that the tartan I was wearing was Scott - her family tartan.

She didn't say anything and pretty much avoided me the rest of the time. Her stuff, not mine. Probably more to do with kids not liking parents than the kilt.