Dust off kilts, kick up heels

JENNY Hosking has been attending Scottish and Irish celebrations across Australia for more than a decade knitting berets in the colours normally woven into tartan kilts.

This Saturday, Jenny will be welcoming many of the people she meets at those events to her home town of Bridgewater for the Scots Day Out-Celtic Connections.

“It will be great to have people coming from across Victoria and even some from interstate,” she said.

“Bringing Scots Day Out into our Celtic Connections day will really expand what we started last year in the old railway station precinct.

“We’ve Scottish handcraft stalls coming from as far as Adelaide and Albury to be part of our special day in Bridgewater.”

Jenny said craft stalls and almost a dozen Scottish clan organisations would form an