A Festival of Cycling in Thoresby park. Today saw us Piping at Thoresby Park on an overcast and chilly day. This event was organised by "Muddy" Waters and was a spectacular weekend of unicycle and penny farthing racing. I have never seen so many of these machines in one place at one time, it was great. We added some entertainment between races and had the pleasure of playing during the feature event which was a 1 hour penny farthing race. I had the oppertunity of riding a penny farthing but wearing a kilt and them being so tall, I thought discretion is the better part of valour and declined. A good all round event with plenty of stalls and things to do.

As you can see, a bit tight for space this year at the Oakham Suite, Mansfield, for the Annual Dinner. Why I hear you ask, well I will tell you. Thank you to all those family and friends that supported us this year we filled the place with 196 people sat for a five course meal. Amazin' turn out.

There are so many thank you's this year, Julia and David Colely were superb as duty Pipers as guests found a seat (no mean feat)

Pipe Sergeant Varley for Piping the Honoured Guests to the top table.

Pipe Sergeant Gullen (skidoo) as Toast Master.

Piper David Ross for his solo on Highland Cathedral.

All band members for playing so well, it was awsome (but I am biased but they were good)

Congratulations to drummers Tony and Lewis on there first band performance.

There were 16 pipers and 8 drummers, yes 8 drummers.

The feed back from very many guests has been that this has been the best Dinner for many years.

Thank you all who helped make such a magical evening.

A Mini Band played at the Worksop Masonic Hall, Nottinghamshire, dressed in evening wear. This was a Burns night celebration. Julia and David played as the guests got seated. Robert played the top table into dine. Then came the address to the haggis which Alex did in superbly animated style, the like of which i have not seen before yet superb.

We then played  a selection of familiar tunes together after the formal toasts. Heather was on the side drum, she played exceptionally adding depth to the overall sound.

We came off to a standing ovation and recieved many many words of approval from those present.

A cold damp day in November but then it always is. Things do change on this Remembrance, year on year the service people who take part in the parade just keep growing. It was an honour to lead this parade which is the biggest I think we have seen. The Band rose to the occasion, we had 14 pipers and 6 drummers.

The people of Mansfield turned out in great numbers to watch the parade, lining the Streets all the way to St. Peters Church

Congratulations to Sam and Mark on thier promotions to Corporal. It is usual to promote members of the band at the annual dinner in April however it was necessary to take this extrodinary step due to the growth of the band. It is a good time for the band. I put this success down to the hard work and dedication of our members. Thank you to you all.

The band was lead today by Pipe Sergeant Varley due to my necessary absence. He was assisted by Pipe Sergeant Gullen. I have had a number of reports back from band members and service personnel and what a fine job they did. I am told that the support from the great people of Mansfield was something to behold. The crowd was packed many people deap all the way down Westgate and into the market. They clapped and cheared all the way as the band drew there attention to the parade with a colection of traditional Scotish marching tunes.

So you didnt think it could be done,, yes it was!. Thank you to Eric form Leicester Branch for sending over this pictoral evidence that we did play on the Howard Brothers Carousel, and it was moving.

Amazing weekend. So much to do and not enough time to do it all. The organser of the event said that we added something different and unique to this well established Country show. This was Notts and Leicester combind Seaforth Bands and it was huge 16 pipers and 8 drummers. I want to say thank you for the members that turned out. I want to say thank you to Steve, the Pipe Major of Leicester Seaforths for involving us in this and a special thank you to Howard Brothers Ltd for letting most of the band on thier steam powered carousel to play the tune "green hills"  while going round and round and round good sports. Just sorry I did not get a photo of that.

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