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May 30, 2007
Pipes and drums and chums.
My Fathers funeral is set for Thursday afternoon.
As a Scottish family and especially because my Father was himself a piper, I need to play the pipes at the service to give the old chieftain "a proper sending off". My pipes are however in California so I need to borrow a set.
Trevor Stokes, the pipe major of my old pipe band, has been kind enough to offer to lend me his set, so Ursula and I attended band practice last night to pick them up and see some old piping friends.
It must be something in the blood, but as the band struck in Ursula was "fair frothing at the mouth" to get into the action. As I held her back I could feel her heart pounding in her chest and her eyes danced wildly.
You can't keep that sort of spirit bridled for long, so I stuck her in the back rank of the drum section, gave her a few pointers on marking rank and counter marching and let her go for it.
The youngest member of the band is 10 year old Callum, a prize winning drummer of insane natural talent, and he set Ursula up with drum sticks and she became the newest member of the band (don't get used to the drums baby, you are going to be a piper whether you want to or not.)
The end of practice was concluded with the band playing "Abide with me" for my Father..phew, big stuff.
Posted by Andrew at May 30, 2007 12:41 AM