Glasgow - Thursday - Practice

This morning we all enjoyed a nice cooked breakfast created by our flatmate Doug. It was very tasty and a great start to the day! I finished up yesterday's blog and the now usual drumming practiced commenced in our kitchen at 9 am sharp.

The band formed up outside and started tuning up. The weather is nice (at the moment) so a welcome change from yesterday's rain!

Counting down the minutes until 10 am.

Tuning... it never ends!

 

Hos gives Doug some tips!

Drum section.

New Tenor Drums! Very nice!

The band hard at it.

After practice I hoofed over to the National Piping Center to watch the Piping Idol Competition. There are many events taking place around the city and this is the one I really enjoy. We saw four competitors do their best MSR, Jig/Hornpipe and Medley before grabbing a BBQ burger for lunch.  The piping and the burger were all very good....  we made our choice of the winning piper 😄 (#3) James Stone. Not sure if he moved on to the final but he should!

Solid performance in front of the crowd.

We had some lunch and grabbed an Uber over to Kelvingrove Park to watch the Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band practice there.  Lots of people showed up with numerous Victoria band members in attendance. Always interesting to see how they prepare the band.

Lots of people out to watch the band practice.

Great views of the Stewart Memorial Fountain and University of Glasgow Business School when not raining!!

We watched for an hour or so then off to the local Park Bar for a pint. This is a short walk from the park and is a favorite stop after any band function. In fact this weekend we will see the road  beside the bar "closed" as it will become a huge beer garden. On the wall is a picture of the original Wallace, the Canadian Scottish mascot.  

Picture on the wall of the Park Bar.... Canadian Scottish Regiment Mascot Wallace 

Doug & Shelly.... Bar flies! :-)

Dave, Kelly, Dave, Annabelle and Kris at the famous Park Bar!

We Uber'ed back to the dorm and had a small social as dinner plans were being formulated. Well the planning part never really came about so it was a pizza in the oven for me... easy to prepare, tasted good and cheap :-) 

 A bunch of folks ended up at the Station Bar for a social but for us, a very quiet night :-)