Watching: Calum’s Commando Course – A truly incredible Highlands and Islands tour – in winter – with Calum Kennedy!
It was the Highland Games today. A big day in the Slackbuie social calendar, as are the next six or seven days for the emergency services and the mountain rescue.
It’s never too difficult to find the pipe band at the games, or any other event really.
The clan chiefs are out in force which really upsets the Colonel, because he can’t have a seagull feather too.
The Colonel makes up for the lack of a feather with his sartorial elegance. He does have a style all his own. Please note his ability to accessorize – matching umbrella!
Not to be outdone, my father has adopted the catweasel look. Growing up, arguments in our house tended to be pretty lively, as the postman can testify, his rather dashing eye patch having been necessitated by my mother’s flintlock. I hate when they rake the bins though, but you can’t choose your family.
Tossing the caber
the successful toss
I don’t know, but I think this is cheating?
The tented wall is established to protect innocent bystanders from the mothers at the Highland dancing competition, held under the white canvas at the back.
Media personality and graduate of St Thadeus School and The Blind Pig School of Contemporary Dance (correspondence course), Newborn Willox Dixon became the voice of late night listening on DEEF Radio, broadcasting across north south Slackbuie, the first, and last, piper to play in the Flatlands Mandolin Jazz Consort, which ended due to balance problems, and is on a sabatical researching the influence of Yodel on liturgical dance.
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