Happy New Year to everyone!
We saw out the Old Year at the Stonehaven Fireball Festival. The festival arose from a 19th century fishermen's festival but it is likely that the use of purifying flame to word off evil spirits and to endow the fishing fleet with luck has pre-Christian origins. Before and after the ceremony itself there was an open air band, amusements, pipe band, drummers and fireworks. I've Youtubed some of the videos I took last night. Not best quality but with approx 12000 folk in attendance, it was kinda hard to get a decent spot for video/photo.
The first is the finale. 45 - 60 burgh residents twirl massive fireballs up and down the main street before hurling them into the harbour.
The second, the piper, was just a bloke that appeared from his back door right in front of us and started playing!
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