Woad

Day 175: "Woad's the stuff to show men! / Woad to scare your foe-men! / Boil it to / A brilliant blue / and rub it on your legs and your ab-DO-men! / Ancient Britons / Never hit on / Anything as good as woad to fit on / Neck or knees or where you sit on! / Good for us today!" So go the words we used to sing around the campfire at Society for Creative Anachronism events. Although my SCA persona was not Scottish, I am fiercely proud of my wrong-side-of-the-blanket descendancy from the McLeods of Lewis (Skye) and break out the garish yellow tartan for days such as today, World Tartan Day. Alas, it is past the season for haggis, but lovely weather for gadding about in woad.