Well today I finally semi got to tie a bow tie and wear one. After 20 minutes and help from my brother @Floyd Bailey Jr. who sent me a video and also @Chad Smith who also sent me one, I finally was able to get one semi looking decent.

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Among my favorite things are ancient Christian history ✅ Fine woolen tweeds, tartans and tattersalls✅ Fly Fishing✅ Great food (especially seafood and wild game)✅ Beautiful lake and ocean seasides✅ Lovely landscapes✅ Interesting architecture✅ Kind people!!!!!!’✅ Single malt Scotch✅ We started our day attending a worship service at The church of the Holy Rood in Stirling where King James: namesake of Jamestown Virginia and the King James Bible, was coronated on July 29, 1597 as James the first of England (already James VI of Scotland). My Daughter in law strained a muscle so since we were staying at a spa hotel (we could only get woodland pod’s in the back which were cool), she and my wife got a massage while my son and I went to Banockburn battlefield where Robert the Bruce set up the kingship indirectly from that victory in 1314. ( see Outlaw King movie to better understand this historic series of events). This lineage lead to the orange white and green battles between James 7 vs William of Orange in the late 1680’s ( the troubles of Northern Ireland trace back to this battle). So much of US, Irish, Australian, and many other parts of the world have been affected by William Wallace (Braveheart movie) and the subsequent Scottish Kingship of Robert the Bruce ( King James1st of England was a direct descendent of Robert the Bruce). I could go on all day about this stuff… From the hotel we travelled to the coastal town of Oban and had a fantastic multi course dinner including Langostine,Thai sauce muscles, Haddock, squid, curry shrimp, Scottish eggs, lamb chops, with a peanut Crème Brûlée, sticky toffee pudding and of course a couple of drams of 14 yr old Oban whiskey! Yea I love Scotland!!!!! Oh yea wore my new cream tattersall w green and burgundy shirt. Burgundy grouse print silk/wool tie i picked up at Stewart Christie’s a couple of days ago with my old cotton duck workwear khaki jeans by Orvis, Barbour jacket. Peter James wool flat cap. Solomon ankle high boots. Tomorrow ferry across to the isle of Mull and another ferry to the Isle of Iona: the birthplace of Christianity into Scotland by St Columba in the 6th century!!!

Prepared for a weekly zoom meeting. SOTD - TF oud wood (clone), called woody oud.