Glasgow Scotland's big games are of course the World Pipe Band Championships in August, where the heavy athletics and highland dancing play second fiddle to over a hundred pipe bands. However there are several smaller games around the suburbs of Glasgow during the season. Here at the north-western edge of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, the Bearsden and Milngavie Games today celebrated their fortieth anniversary.
Entry to the games is free and the programme costs only £1 donation to charity.
With over a dozen pipe bands and some well known competitors in the heavies it is an excellent free show, presumably funded by sponsors and by the funfair and almost a hundred stalls selling a wide variety of goods. While games in rural Scotland struggle to survive, the large population of the Glasgow area who want somewhere to go for a day out ensure the continuing viability of games such as this.
Neil Elliot easily clears the bar, but then the weight hit the bar on the way down.
Kinetikat watches the throwers.
then she gets her turn to throw...
...and easily clears the bar.
Below are some more shots of Kinetikat in action.
More to follow shortly
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