Sadly the Berwickshire letter column does not publish all the letters to the editor-one from a 'deaf and very penitent resident of Coldstream' complains about a recent 'musical experience' which he likened to the' awful guttural sound of someone being spectacularly and violently sick to the dying bellows of the Cretan Minotaur'. He claims the noise set his tomatoes back several weeks and drove the birds from his garden. He wonders if this was some awful revenge 'for some terrible wrong carried out on their ancestors by the Reivers' He begs for mercy and entreats that the so called 'scene on the Green' is not inflicted on the 'streamers again.
The source of the noise is not mentioned. I suspect tyro bagpiper? A bagpipe played badly is a noise from Hell. Played well, to my uneducated ear, is not much better. From Purgatory perhaps?
