Yet again I'm late with my chronicling!

Last month's final weekend saw our band put on our second Burns' Night. This time we staged a more detailed program, & for this cause I actually stayed all the way through several practice sessions in order to get it down like everyone else. It was mostly droning again, but there came a point during the intermission when we three official new pipers had to really play, performing "The Flower of Scotland" with the pipe major as we'd rehearsed for some two months--except that, to avoid tuning complications, only three of our nine drones were allowed to sound. I wasn't impressed with myself/us, but who complained?

We may not have attracted quite the crowd this time (I didn't see the Cornells), but word was, simply, there was no comparison with last year, & maybe I'll leave it at that--except to note the action seemed to fade away more quickly this night.

Early this month the leftover haggis & accompanying mash were put up for grabs, & I took my share--only finishing it the day before this entry's date!