Blackening of the Bride

Once again my spelling has gone awry, it should be "Blackening of the Bride".
Here are some pictures that Lianne sent, with permission to put up on our blog.

We are off early tomorrow morning to Lossiemouth and then the next day we should be in Inverness, so will blog then.

Gunged!


Parading through town with lots of noise!
 


Cling filmed to a lamppost - Sue you can use this idea when the guys get unruly at BSC.



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