We went to Kirkwall this morning to get some tickets for a Wrigley sisters concert in the cathedral tonight.
The centre of town was like Beirut on a bad day. All the shops and houses had 2 inch thick wooden barricades bolted across all the windows and doors.
Even the fire station was barricaded.
I am assuming that the fire engines had been removed from the fire station for safe keeping elsewhere. If not then their response time in the event of an emergency would be severely lenghthened by the necessity of unbolting and removing the barriers.
By tomorrow morning there will be even more barriers. The shop doors are not barricaded yet but they will be later tonight.
All this for The Ba.
There can not be many places that would not only permit this degree of disruption but would actually revel in it, all for a game, with the possible exception of Millwall football games.
We shall see tomorrow if all these precautions were necessary.
In the evening we went to the Wrigley Sisters Hogmanay concert in St Magnus Cathedral. The sisters are very good musicians but I must admit that, while I like some instrumental music, I prefer it to be interspersed with some songs, especially in a Hoot-N-Roar for hogmanay.
The catherdal is certainly a beautiful venue for a concert. It is a bit unusual in that it does not belong to the established church but to the people of Kirkwall and so it is probably put to a greater range of uses than most cathedrals.
We were supposed to be going on to The Sands to see the new year in after the concert but Pam decided that she did not want to go to The Sands and stop until midnight and I thought that it would look very bad if the newcomers left the party before the new year so we came home and watched telly. Whoopee.
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