Redford Barracks

Redford Barracks

Monday morning. Up early. Breakfast. Into uniform for training.. Onto the Bus . Off to Redford Barracks. A lovely drive to Redford in the bus with the Swiss Highlanders. On arrival we drove around the premises to find out where we meant to meet, eventually we got off the bus at the Infantry Barracks. Once there we then took a really brisk walk to the cavalry barracks mail room to collect the drums that were organised from the 19^th Regiment Royal Artillery.

The bass drum is as heavy as %^*&*. It weighs at least 3 times more than my usual bass drum and looks like there is a blanket just shoved in side. Anyway, it a bass drum none the less.

After another really brisk walk back to the Infantry parade ground, carraing what has to be the world’s heaviest bass drum in a case that done not close properly.. this is the start of the fun.. Yay me !

After being welcomed by Cpt. Small Director of Army Bagpipe music, it was straight to work. Going through the tunes, and then the march on.

It was not long before we had all that off then we had to start practicing bunching up to get over the narrow draw bridge of the Caslte as well as our formation which is a saltire. For those of you I lost in the last sentence, it is a big cross, like that of which is on the Scottish Flag.

So practice practice practice.. lunch and then practice some more... after the practicing... we went back to Darroch Court for a quick dinner and off to the Castle for another practice session.