Muggins
I'm from Scotland. Or be more exact - Speyside - Whisky country. What ever stuff they serve at "The Prancing Pony" or "The Green Dragon" is certainly not up to the standard of a good Scotch malt. I've live for 47 years now, and still not refused a dram.
I was but a nipper of of about 11, when our headmaster's wife read us a version of Bilbo's Red book called "The Hobbit", and I've been a Tolkein fan ever since. Through school I became a fan of Arther C. Clarke, John Wyndham and other sci-fi authors. I then seem to gravitate to fantasy, first Michael Moorcock. Most of what I read now is fantasy. Paula Radcliffe's autobiography is the next book I 'm going to read, after I've caught up on Terry Goodkind.
A part of my family came from Scotland too, my father's mother, more exactly; she was born in Inverness but moved to Edinburgh when she was a teenager.
Good land and good people there -- and the best whisky! (But I like irish too :P)
Re: Muggins
Welcome! What do you know, I have Irish and Scots in me, too, plus German and Welsh and a little Native American. Osage tribe, to be exact, through my mother's side of the family.