I think Gathering 2014 may be the biggest topic at the Stone Mountain Highland Games today, but unless someone comes up with a miracle, there will be no big gathering.

Regional Gatherings might still be done in the 20 months time left, but then why not move the Gathering to 2016 and have time to do it right?

Personally I think there should be a Clans Gathering at Edinburgh every couple of years. The Fringe Festival is there every summer, so why not a Clans Gathering?

What we are left with at this point is either everyone choosing a big games to show up at, like the Strathmore games at Glamis in June, or no BIG gathering, but several regional gatherings.

So why did Stirling Council say they would put on this event and then do nothing at all???????

All those clans who already made plans, booked rooms and buses, and set up tours before & after are not happy.

That book "How Scots Invented The World" is going to have a bad ending. :-(