The concert in Perth was a great success, the audience very enthusiastic and we came on to do two encores. We then stayed with committee members John and Rosie, where we experienced many a whisky.

This morning we went to Perth High School to give a workshop, arranged by Perth Chamber Music Society and Enterprise Scotland. The pupils were between 14-17 and were a mixture of very enthusiastic and your typical embarrassed teenager type, but it went down well, and one girl left so enthused exclaiming to the head of music that she's now definitely switching to learn the flute (she's currently a percussionist). We also got asked why we weren't married...

Just as we were about to set off for our next destination (Kirkcaldy) Leo noticed that one of the front wheels was dented and swollen - this was obviously the result of the humungous unavoidable potholes we experienced on our way up to the Scottish Boarders on the first day.
We've just spent the last two hours sitting in several mechanics finding a way around the problem...apparently driving on this wheel is a definite no-go. We're now using the spare wheel where we can go at a max speed of 50mph, have ordered a new wheel to come in tomorrow morning. So we're that dreadful car on the motorway crawling along to Kirkcaldy, and will have to get up early tomorrow and drive back to Perth to get the replacement before going on Biggar (goodbye day trip to Loch Lomond 😞)