Victoria, B.C. Burns Night

[MacRobert's Reply]

Great pictures! You look very well turned out ... but what is the tartan-clad imp on your left shoulder whispering to you?

[Macman]

Great pictures! You look very well turned out ... but what is the tartan-clad imp on your left shoulder whispering to you?

Thanks, everybody. The imp is a piper nutcracker that my daughter gave me for my birthday just after Christmas, and I haven't had the heart to put him away with the Christmas decorations yet.

[English Bloke]

Great pictures MM. Thanks, y' can't beat a good band!

[OC Richard]

Great photos!

What tartan does the Greater Victoria Police Pipe Band wear?

What's odd is that our pipe band, here in Southern California in 1986, chose to wear British Columbia tartan! We had to have a bolt woven for us, in kilt weight fabric, by Lochcarron, who at the time only wove it in necktie weight.

This caused confusion when we competed over in Scotland, as our bass drum said "Redlands CA" and the Scots thought that the CA stood for Canada. We're listed as being from Canada in the World Pipe Band Championships programme. Next time we went to Scotland we put the word California on the bass drum.