The Highland Fling

THE HIGHLAND FLING

A wee ditty on coming of age and my curiosity as to the real function of a sporran which I am sure has its origins not just as a manbag for pipe, baccie, lip balm, coins, pipe cleaners and cellphone! It’s constant rhythmic bouncing on the top of the wee boaby surely has some effect as a reminder of manliness!

Toss the caber, ink stained sheet, fat love, tough love, two left feet, tides are turning, musty groves, find direction, slithy toves,

Toppling world, cracking crust, quakes and quandaries, in what to trust? all fingers and thumbs, ask mates, ask mums Conolly, Rabbie, pipes and drums

Inside each Scot a braveheart beats With pride in the kilt it’s pin and pleats Haggis, neeps, tatties, pinhead oats The heather and the highlands even John O’Groats

A Bagpipe’s lamenting, the lochs and isles Amazing and graceful as the accent beguiles And beleaguers those who try to understand the tartans, the customs, the pull of the clan

For now it’s a shandy, catching the match, on yer bike for a night with your mates, or the girls or the game or the stars or alone whatever it is, time’s moving on.

Lead in your pencil, whiskery chin, balls dropped, senses pricked. So it begins Dance on a knife edge, feather in cap A dram or a drag for the rise of the sap

Take your partners for a Highland Fling Wild oats ready and the ding a ling a ling Cod piece or sporran that could be a truss It is a lacky lad who coddles him thus

And now wee lassies ‘tis time for the play The sun is shining so let us make hay Willy McNilly creates a fine impression It’s up to you now if it’s union or secession!

Filming Green Ice in Mexico City in the rain at night 17 stories up atop the Citibank headquarters

Music was my passion at an early age but I was seduced into hotair ballooning around the time that my musical endeavours took a pause. This lead me off to many great places travelling with balloons. It was like Rock & Roll turned upside down lots of effort for a one hour flight or gig but, with ballooning, more early morning and fewer late nights. I have never adjusted to early rising but thanks to being at the cutting edge of ballooning activities, my involvement has brought me joy and a sense of wonderment at the world as well as the chance to meet great people and segue into the film business which is another fantastic story and reason music took a back seat