Well that was quick...

Having spent all day researching plants, I was really looking forward to going to Guildford Torchlight procession. It has to be the best band parade that we do. After getting a few suprise cadets join us, and weaving our way through the diabolical traffic, we eventually got there. In a record 10 minutes, we were ready to play alongside our sister ship, Implacable. That was the quickest we have ever set up, but we did have lots of help form Implac.

Anyways, onto the parade, and we messed up a little. First of all, we marched off (as you would expect), but a tad too early. Too early in fact for the radio car that was supposed to lead to join us. God knows where he ended up. Needless to say, they weren't impressed with that. We also had somewhere near to a million side drummers. Because side drummers are simple folk (glad I moved to playing a brass instrument), they just tapped away. With so many of them, it was almost impossible to control them. So they got faster and faster and faster. Apparently, we marched this year's 1 mile parade in just 25 minutes. 15 minutes quicker than last year! Well, I hope we aren't that fast for Remembrance Day, or the old veterans are going to get a shock...