I seem to recall being told that I was named after one of my dad's army pals, so not named after King Kenneth (Cináed in Gaelic), the first King of Scotland , who is credited with uniting the Picts and Gaels as Scots.

Watson is a very common Scottish surname (19th most common) but is also fairly common is England, both having common Germanic origins of all things!

I like to think that I hail from the Scottish Watsons and my DNA analysis seems to support that, albeit lowland rather  that highlands.

Anyway, there seems to be three main groups of Watsons to be found in Scotland.

The lowland Watsons, are from the Lothians and thereabouts. The two groups of Highland Watsons are from Stirlingshire/Perthshire (clan Buchanan) and Aberdeenshire (clan Forbes).

The Watson sept of clan Buchanan have their own tartan. One of the 'ancient' forms of this is used here as the background.

I am definitely a self-confessed scotophile and among other things have a love of Malt Scotch Whisky.

Here I am giving a wee talk on Malt Scotch (at ELWY Boat Club's Burns supper) prior to some tasting.

The kilt is in Hamilton Grey tartan (no family connection).