Fireworks Over The Ness
The Highland 2007 celebrations got underway on Friday night and by all accounts fifteen thousand people braved the wind and rain to enjoy the party. I wasn't one of them, but we did see the fireworks display from our new house and then it was back to the task of opening boxes moving furniture and wondering what the removal men did with our pyjamas.
Speaking to friends who attended the Inverness street party, the whole thing seemed to have gone with a bang and apparently the pipers who skirled their way from balconies overlooking the Ness were most impressive.
Yet all of this seemed to have come as a surprise to some people in Inverness. I went for a haircut at lunchtime today and the salon owner told me she knew nothing about Highland 2007 and was quite disappointed to have missed Friday's event.
Our weekly Highland Cafe programme should do something to help promote awareness of this year-long festival. One aspect of that - our training of schoolchidren to become reporters for the programme - seems to have captured the imagination of the press. The Highland News had a feature piece on it last week as did this week's Sunday Post.
All in all, I think I've picked the right year to move north.
