pipe dream

just approved a revised draft of an article about yours truly to be published in the next issue of 'Piping Today', (not a plumbers' rag but the mag of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow). Put this together with the experience of finding my book in the Library and the result is a realization of what I've done.
It really is extraordinary how someone can write a book on a subject that no-one's ever bothered to write a book on before and make out that they're the world authority, and people seem to take them seriously. it's rather frightening.
But then, i suppose if you find a subject that no-one has ever cared to learn much about, and you learn a bit about it, you become an authority by default. Someone will rumble sooner or later, but in the meantime....

equinox past

I found my lowland bagpipe book in the Edinburgh Central Music Library yesterday; it has been borrowed twice since february. these are big moments.

The dvd player wouldnt work so it went to the repairers who said the laser was dead and would cost more than a new one to replace. Tonight I am watching it; so much for repairs. the tray sticks sometimes

hey!

It says march 10th on that last post, but it's taken another week to get it actually posted. Better get another post up before the thing disappears again

thie week one of the oldest known highland bagpipe chanters visited Scotland for the first time in 200 years (it lives in Nova Scotia); the chanter of the 'Blind Piper of Gairloch', Ian Dall.

Thought you should know this; it's a big moment in Piping history, and in scottish musical history generally, since Barnaby Brown was playing Julian Goodacre's reconstruction at the same do, for the first time in public.




and after 13 years of not doing so, I joined The Traditioanl Cosmology Society

At Last: Thankyou Ivor

tried to post a farewell and thanks message to Ivor a few days ago, but blogger ate it. so

thankyou
Actually I think this site is full up, which may help explain why I'm having so much difficulty posting anything.

Well, it took a long while to sort that out but I think we're back in business for a bit. I've removed all the large images from the Lime tree diary. Don't cry, they'll be back when I've organized some more space.
I'm also dismantling the web site bit by bit, to rebuild the thing as and when the book is published. Proof copies planned for the summer.