Saturday arrives all bleary eyed and hungover, or was that just most of the camping field, dunno, but it was me. The plan, eat, sort out the silly games and then get the wheelie bin racin' going. A very kind south of the border council had donated these fetching purple wheelie bins along with spare axles and wheels. Marty and myself had worked to modify the bins , lengthen axles, drill and generally fettle aboot, wi the bins that is ! Oh aye and Marty did the dab hand wi the spray cans. After last year's collapsing pram wheels incidents we decided to move from Michelin to Bridgestone

So this year the bins had 'proper' wheels at the back and we greased the axles to get the most performance out of them. After all this work I was looking forward to having a right guid laugh and a carry on. Then Sharon drops the bombshell in the early afternoon, our main band for saturday the 'Derivatives' had cancelled. As far as I know none of them had died, therefore they had commited a cardinal sin as far as I was concerned. If no one is dead, then ye don't let folk down at the last minute, real bad show guys. Especially since they were bringing the PA.

To say I was fucking furious is an understatement, some Inuit tribesmen phone to complain about my ranting. Thanks to many folk who chipped in band names we phoned about ten names trying to get a replacement, "Hello, Can ye play a bike rally ?", "When", "er, tonight" "WHIT !, er NAW"

There would be repercussions later in park ferme during the drugs testing for these two, illegal fuel methinks. IT was reported however that the funniest bit was watching Wee John throwing his whole weight behing the cart trying to stop it and ending up being dragged down the strip and just stopping before wiping out someone's bike.

That was until we were ceremoniously 'dug oot the shite' by 'Apparition' from round Dunfermilne way. I had to then make calls and bugger of wi Sue in Thor to scrounge together a PA back up in Stirling. The upshot of this was that I missed the wheelie bin racing, pleased, NO. But every cloud has a silver lining, we got a much better band who rocked the place on Saturday night.

   

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