[Myrddin]

The Ancestry DNA project has me at 31% Scot, 29% Welsh. The Welsh language is interesting to me. I've completed the Duolingo course. I started into Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic and found the Scots Gaelic suited me better. Fewer dialects as well. I have a beginner's chanter for bagpipe practice. It's a little "off" because you can't articulate the airflow in a bagpipe or associated chanter. It's constant airflow from the bag. Notes are separated with "embellishments". I need to order some better reeds for my chanter. It has plastic reeds that sound awful.

BTW, last night was Robert Burns night. No haggis or IRN BRU was available locally.

My Scottish ancestors came to the US via North Carolina. It turns out that my wife also has Scottish connections to survivors of Culloden. If I have any kind of bucket list, it includes a visit to Scotland and a return to Wales. An aspirational goal is to speak only Welsh while in Wales.

[caseinpoint]

Interesting background and desire to keep touch with your ancestry. My ancestry hails mostly from the British Isles and Scandinavia but I haven’t been brave enough to try haggis or pickled herring. You’re a braver man than I am, Gunga Din.