The full band competition in St Albans...
we could scrape together enough to make it (from a piper point of view) after the defections, retirements and job related moves.
we entered the G4b - Marches, G4a - MSR, and G3 (with the MSR again). We were not playing our best but it did help the team gelling and good practice for the following weekend in Paisley (or so we thought).
we came 3rd, 3rd, and 2nd ... that is the positive spin ... the problem was we were last in them all, and mainly where we had let ourselves down - no big mistakes, but lots of niggles that did not separate us from the others.
the day was another long one.. starting from home at 7:30 to get to Billy's for breakfast then up to St Albans for 10am .. as we were sharing a room we could not get in and had to practice outside.. then in and warmup followed by tuning ..
after lunch 3 performances
