Proud to be a Scot

Today's March challenge is to share something that you don't know about me. When I was nine, my family moved from Glasgow to Kitimat, as small town in northern BC. As a young teenager, I played in the Kitimat Pipe Band. We marched in parades in Kitimat, Penticton, Kelowna, the big PNE parade in Vancouver, and in Ketchikan, Alaska. It was great fun. I bought my pipes by saving up money from a paper route. We left Kitimat when I was in Grade 10 and moved to another small town that didn't have a pipe band. Over the years, I played my pipes off and on but never again in a band. Unfortunately the bag got moldy and I had to get rid of them. I still have a chanter, my cairngorm brooch that I wore on the fly plaid, my hat pin, and the button hook for doing up the buttons on the spats. I don't know what happened to my kilt pin.
My mum was a Boyd (that's the Boyd family crest and motto in the photo) and I was born a MacLaughlan. I don't know why I have the hat pin with the clan motto from the clan MacFarlane. And although I'm a Canadian citizen, I'll always be a Scot!