Preparations

Preparations continue at the hut for the Great Gathering of the Clan on November 1.

Dan and Ben MacTavish dragged a great table up the hill today, straining to get it over the steepest bits. Telets, skilled carpenter that he is, has recently fashioned a large number of stools and benches and these were placed around the table and in our hut. Various cooking devices and utensils are being collected, and there's even a small flock of piglets penned in awaiting Vermelaine's knife on the big day.

The young herald from the Court of Lyons visited us again today. She went into the backroom with the Chieftain and his maps, emerging shortly after with several rolled up documents in hand and a thoughtful expression on her bonny face. She left shortly afterwards.

Tom's mate Roddy has been playing the pipes today. A bit more formalised in meter, Roddy's "March'n'u't'Burn" is an old song of homecoming. Piper Tom is resting his lungs for November 1. Hopefully we'll have a few visitors on the day, perhaps on their way home from the Highland Games. Tom wants to play a selection of his favorite tunes for them all!