His father served with the Seaforth Highlanders in the 1940s and 1950s. Guy McLaughlin, a victim in the trenches in World War I, and his grandfather, Major Stewart Ritchie, killed in combat in 1940 in Normandy. Weather tags into empty pages by default. This will prevent this. Hundreds of photographers have staked out positions for a possible photo opportunity in Dornoch.
Journalists hover, clutching mobile phones while school children stare.
And TV crews packed a nearby pub asking reluctant locals for interviews. Barmen carrying pints of beer to the tables ducked to avoid cameras, carefully negotiating yards of knotted cables. Now it's heaving. We've even had to listen to Madonna all night on the jukebox. Meanwhile enterprising residents have been quick to seize on the moneymaking potential of the event.