It is the only day of the year that I actually desire to play music featuring bagpipes. This is BBC coverage of the opening parade of the massed pipe bands at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012. Bringing together the very best pipe bands from across the globe -- 12 pipe bands in all -- featuring the award-winning Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, The Royal Corps of Signals, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland and Queen Victoria School, Dunblane. While from overseas, Melbourne's Rats of Tobruk, the Australian Federal Police, the Manly Warringah and Scots College from Sydney, South Africa's Cape Town Highlanders along with the Canadian Army complete the ranks of this prodigious massed pipe band.
A prayer for the Christmas season:
God of light & darkness, there's a sudden emptiness when the songs of Christmas are over. We miss the lights that kept away at least some of the despair. The scents of the season all too quickly float away and become memories. Too easily we feel life's grit and we groan or growl. Sometimes we parrot pat answers that leave others wanting. And, we forget that the touch of service can awaken our best, happy self. Forgive us & shine your light anew. Amen.
Love One Another - Brian
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