Yes great photos! I too really like the one of those two old gentlemen.
Our band competed at the Bridge of Allan in 2007. It rained all day! The field turned into a muddy quagmire by the end of the day, and the final March Past was cancelled.
Many of the pipe bands' coaches, including ours, got stuck in the mud. Local farmers brought their tractors and helped the coaches out.
Our coach was one of the first ones the tractors reached, but evidently our coach driver tried to tell the farmers how to do their business and they drove off, leaving our coach to last! So us Southern Californians stood for an hour in the rain, very hungy, but nothing to do about it because all the food stands had closed. It was a soggy trip back to Glasgow that night.
The day before, we played at North Berwick in lovely weather.
A week later it also rained all day at the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green, so we had continuous rain at two of our three Scottish competitions.
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