Locating the Kilt Pin

[Jock Scot]

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I will admit I'm having a bit of difficulty convincing my wife that being a piping groupie for two weeks is the best way to spend precious vacation dollars…

I am afraid that I can't help but agree with your wife.

[jsrnephdoc]

I am afraid that I can't help but agree with your wife.

Well, of course if we're there for the better part of two weeks we'll visit a few distilleries as well, but she's sampled alcohol only once in her entire life. I do think she'll enjoy touring the Royal Yacht Britannia, just a block or two away from where the king drops in to buy his kilts (or maybe he has someone else pick them up for him).

[User]

I am afraid that I can't help but agree with your wife.

That forced a chuckle out of me 🤭

[OC Richard]

I am afraid that I can't help but agree with your wife.

My wife too, on ONE of our several Britian holidays we did ONE day attending a Highland Games.

That's as much as she can take.

Odd, in a way, because around the time we met she attended Games regularly, and she has several medals from them (not piping or dancing, but running). She was also part of an RSCDS "demonstration team".

[jsrnephdoc]

My wife too, on ONE of our several Britian holidays we did ONE day attending a Highland Games.

That's as much as she can take.

Odd, in a way, because around the time we met she attended Games regularly, and she has several medals from them (not piping or dancing, but running). She was also part of an RSCDS "demonstration team".

I had to do a quick web search to decipher "RSCDS." And THAT, I think perhaps explains what might be termed "SSS" (spousal saturation syndrome).

I'm unworried about dragging my wife to "The Europeans," "The Worlds," and then the Royal Tattoo.

Richard, my spouse is NEVER awakened by her husband exercising his "pinkie burl" on a practice chanter, nor did she ever have a chance to grow tired of highland dance competitions. Jock, same goes for you, I'll wager. While my FIRST visit to Scotland, 20 years ago, treated me to sounds of Pipes only twice (one of THOSE being an impromptu teenage street corner rock band with a set of pipes substituting for the bass guitar, that contrasts with "almost never," here in the USA. In fact, I think my spouse's exposures in the past 2 decades can be enumerated on the fingers of one hand (my mom's funeral, ONE day at a regional Highlands Games, HER "substitute mom's" funeral, and my iPhone "Skye Boat Song" ring tone.

[OC Richard]

I think it's safe to say

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo = pipes for the general public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnXf...&start_radio=1

(at 3:41 Kevin Conquest, a US Coast Guard officer and Drum Major)

World Pipe Band Championships = pipes for hard-core pipe band enthusiasts

Glenfiddich = pipes for hard-core solo piping enthusiasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ7fPAyvZxQ