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Edinburgh Tattoo

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LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 1 Sep 2015 00:09

We have to wait some time before the Tattoo is shown on Oz TV........ I usually look for it on YouTube.

Rellies from NZ were there this year, playing bagpipes & drums, so I really want to see it.

I doubt they would have had water pistols........ their mothers would sort them out!

Barbra

Barbra Report 31 Aug 2015 23:18

I enjoy watching the Tattoo :-D ;-)

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Tipperary. Derby .Moray. ST. Helens. Bladen /.My Eldest Son /

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 31 Aug 2015 21:17

:-D

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Denburybob

Denburybob Report 31 Aug 2015 20:56

Watching the Military tattoo on telly this evening prompted me to change my avatar to show me in the Regimental band in about 1962. Here is a true story. In 1963 we performed at the Bath Tattoo, during which we had to countermarch through the Royal Marine's band. During one performance, as I approached their front rank, on the return, one of their woodwind players produced a water pistol and squirted me in the face with water. During the next performance, as I approached him from behind, as I raised my drumsticks I "accidently" caught his elbow, causing him to nearly swallow his instrument, and loosening a tooth. He came looking for me afterwards. He was a giant of a man, and I was only 16, and if it hadn't been for the Ghurkas we had got friendly with, things could have turned nasty. Regimental exaggeration has the water pistol filled with ink, and when I meet up with some of the old boys, there is often a "do you remember that time at Bath.."