Went for a coffee during the day and bumped into a few pipers from Strathclyde Police. One, Bill Geddes (right), tells me he has an invite to the Silver Chanter. They'll let anyone
play at Dunvegan these days. The 'polis' said they are continuing to practice for the Scottish at Dumbarton as before - so no news is good news as they say. Hopefully the pressure that has been put on the commander etc is paying off and they'll keep their hands off the band. We're getting close to our target of 3,000 names on the petition. If you haven't already signed it then please do so now - and encourage your friends and family to do the same. We need to press home any slight advantage we may have and I want to present the list of names to someone in authority by the end of May. 
Stuart Cassells of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers has been in all week helping Joe during the second week of the Easter School. Stuart has lost a lot of weight and is determined to keep the svelte pop star shape intact. Willie Park is threatening to take him hill walking. The CoP offering personal trainers! Is there to end to what we do for piping! Hope you enjoyed the week Stuart.
Have put the third excerpt from my CoP Lecture of last year on CoP TV. YouTube only takes 10 minutes at a time so these shorter extracts are the only way to do it I'm afraid. If anyone reading this has any piping footage they'd like to submit please fire in a DVD. Mpeg4 format is good.
I see from the Stornoway Gazette that Canadian Alan Bevan won the overall at the Donald Macleod contest. Congratulations to you Alan (right). Must be one of the few times that a first timer has actually won the thing. If anyone up there in Lewis is reading this please make sure you send down a report and some pictures for the PT. If we don't have the information we can't give you coverage. If the SG can give permission to use their stuff that would do.
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