{"id":145,"date":"2009-09-06T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-09-06T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T17:31:48","slug":"men-in-kilts-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/2009\/09\/06\/men-in-kilts-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"MEN IN KILTS!! Finally!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, thank goodness!! I was getting depressed &#8212; almost a week here in Scotland and nary a man in a kilt to be seen&#8230;.or appreciated&#8230;but last night at Eilean Donan Castle, these two greeted me at the door on my way to the Clan MacRae gathering &#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-146\" title=\"imgp1472\" src=\"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/imgp1472-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ossian and Alex at Eilean Donan Castle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ossian and Alex at Eilean Donan Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;d met Alex before &#8212; on my first trip to Scotland I toured the Highlands with Sue-ellen Welfonder and Lisa Trimbauer &#8212;\u00a0Alex gave us a tour of Eilean Donan and drew us a wonderful map of medieval sites on Skye.\u00a0 But this is the first I&#8217;d met Ossian &#8212; so I got a photo with him. And, gentleman that he is, he let me hold his very big sword:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_147\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-147\" title=\"imgp1473\" src=\"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/imgp1473-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ossian's Sword - Oh My!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ossian&#39;s Sword - Oh My!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh, c&#8217;mon!! You knew I had to say that sometime in this trip?! LOL!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The rest of the event was fabulous &#8212; first the &#8216;youngsters&#8217; performed for us, singing songs in Gaelic and playing everything from bodhran to harp to guitars to accordions to fiddles. Then the &#8216;masters&#8217; took over, with a narrator telling the story of the Clan MacRae and singers and musicians joining in with songs written by or about the MacRaes of Kintail. Being in Eilean Donan\u00a0simply made it more special.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tonight, after driving to Skye, I went to another gathering &#8212; this time the Clan MacLeod at Dunvegan Castle.\u00a0 This time, the piper played the big-sized bagpipes, a thrill he said because of his family background.\u00a0 I learned that the MacKinnons were the hereditary pipers for the Clan MacLeod, and this piper, Calum MacKinnon, is the latest in a line of pipers in his family. He told us that his father even texted him about the significance of him performing at Dunvegan! And the sound was almost too large for the room where we were.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was pretty special &#8212; listening to him play and sitting right next to the Fairy Flag of the MacLeod&#8217;s&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The drive back to Uig where I&#8217;m staying was another interesting driving challenge &#8212; rains and winds and curving unlit roads&#8230;.oh my!\u00a0 But I was still humming some of the music I&#8217;d heard all the way back&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Terri<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Getting excited about my trip over to Lewis and Harris in the outer Hebrides on Monday. . . Leaving on a 5:30 AM ferry is not exciting though&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, thank goodness!! I was getting depressed &#8212; almost a week here in Scotland and nary a man in a kilt to be seen&#8230;.or appreciated&#8230;but last night at Eilean Donan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-ladys-private-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribrisbin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}