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According to the Beeb, Man City had a player sitting prone in the penalty area.

To me, this is a physical impossibility, but it does bring to mind an old Billy Connolly joke.

Chrise

Thanks. The manganese seems familiar. So you get a different sort of manganese oxide but it converts back to the original? Clever.

Swarbrules

Football commentators annoy me. There were 3 on one match last week and I dont need to know that a player has 2 feet.

Malone and Grunger

I read your interesting postings on another thread, but I dont understand dressmaking. If a skirt is 16 ins long, but it needs 1 sq yd of material, the circumference must be about 70 ins. But surely Grunger is much slimmer so she must wrap it around twice.

Jigjag, nice to see you. I'm afraid your dressmaking/maths problem is totally beyond me. I remember the man in the kilt shop telling me that a good kilt used 8 metres of material - everything else is beyond me.

PS I can understand inches, feet, yards, centimetres, metres... but I don't like square yards and yards square. Fortunately it is easy enough to get through life ignoring this sort of stuff.

Malone

I have decided to make a kilt for myself. I have been to the tailors stall in the market and ordered the material. They thought 4 yards (jigjag - not sq yds) would be enough.

I went through the book of samples and chose a dark green tartan with some blue and yellow in it. When they looked it up, I was amazed that it was Clan Malone. I hope to have it finished to wear on Hog Money.

Grunger, I saw, read and enjoyed your post before i made a start on lunch... and after that, I went straight out.

It was lovely to hear that you plan to make a kilt/kilt-like garment. I'm sure you'll enjoy making it and enjoy wearing it. I'm slightly ... sniffy about the tartan you've chosen. It sounds a wee bit roary/roarie for me, but each to their own (clan?)

You've given yourself plenty of time to finish your kilt. That's your bottom half sorted, what are you going to wear on the top? Men have various options, worth exploring.

Malone
I had been considering making a scarf if there were to be any spare material, but you have got me thinking.

I had not thought of a top but perhaps a waistcoat would be OK. I don't want to be mistaken for a Scotsman though.

Grunger
Good luck with your skilt and the rest of your outfit. You won't be mistaken for a Scotsman, unless you take your bagpipes which I think you play.

Evening, Grunger and Jigjag.

Grunger,as I'm such a Scottish Scot, I do tend to think of kilts as ... for men and boys really. I like Jigjag's term, skilt - and I think that'd be a far better option for you. You can make it as pleated as you like, as swishy as you like and you can dispense with a sporran. You'll be able to team this up with blouses and jumpers and your mayching scarf might add a touch of elegance (which would immediately be wiped out if there's any glimpses of bagpipes.)

Jigjag, I seem to remember that you had a bit of a nightmare once when it came to buying new jeans? Maybe Grunger could get a few more metres (only you can advise how many ' a few more' will be - it depends how many cafe trips you've been racking up) of tartan and run you up a pair of authentic Scottish trews.