A 'streamer bloggee with musical enthusiasms writes:
Big news today is that Coldstream Pipe Band (http://www.coldstreampipeband.co.uk/) will not be making it to the Peebles Beltane festival this weekend ). We have a chronic shortage of adult pipers and the young uns are at the 'coming on' stage rather than the 'piping up the street' stage. Drummers you ask? We've plenty and a nice wee grant from the Lottery has acquired us a full set of new, lightweight drums for the Cockburn brothers to instruct their young charges on. But pipers, oy vay! There's none. None, I tell you. They just get started in their teens and then they're off out of Coldstream like a miscreant from Sherrif Kevin's coort never to be seen again, so not like the sherrif court then! Are there no young potential pipers in the Hutton-Paxton conurbation? Or has Duns Pipe Band poached them all. Watch out, there's a press gang sailing down the Tweed toward Hutton as we speak.I am afraid that once again Huttonian can't really help and I expect the raiding party will return empty handed. Something I read on a website before the general election suggested that our SNP candidate was a dab hand at the piping and had even piped in the Haggis at a Burns Supper-most unusual accomplishment for a distaff Scot I am told.
