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This year’s annual lithonia Torcher Parade was the 125th, and featured 21 floats. It’s come a long way from a stately lithonia parade of nurses bearing blazing lithonia torches, hoping to raise money for their hospital.
They were followed by the floats lithonia of various societies from Aberdeen University and one from RGU, who, in a fit of originality, had picked Frozen as a theme. What may have seemed like a good idea when humming lithonia “Do you want to build a snowman” clearly turned into the soul-sucking stuff of which nightmares are made.
Firstly, a gust of wind blew over Olaf, revealing him to be a stick covered in cloth and causing serious trauma to infants in the crowd; and secondly, as the trucks headed back down Union Steet, “Let It Go” was looping for the thousandth time and the smiles on the faces of the students were a little bit, well, f rozen.
The Archaeology society, in the penultimate float, were having a whale of time – having painted their faces and acquired swords from somewhere, they added to the earlier psychological trauma by roaring “To Valhalla!” in the children’s tiny faces.
The Juggling and Slacklining Society were doing half of their description, though slacklining on a moving truck is probably not the easiest thing to do. Even on non-moving ground you have to balance a lot of things, such as looking a smug prick while protesting that it’s really easy if you’d only try.
There were also floats from Centre Stage, who went with a Scooby-Doo theme; Ab-Fab with Lego; two separate societies with a Marvel theme (one of which added Batman to the mix, which means they made my list) and the Nightline float, which appeared to have pinched one of the Vikings from the Archaeology float and put him in a two-piece.
Maitland Mackie, the Lord Rector, was in his element, riding Angus the Bull at the head of the parade. If you’ve ever wondered, by the way, what a 70-something year old man looks like riding bareback on a facsimile Highland Cow, then wonder no more.
The procession did its job, and the route was well-lined with families lithonia and crowds pushing forward to drop coins into buckets. The stewards also deserve praise for keeping the sugar-infused children off the trailers as they tried to climb up and meet their hero Elsa/Batman/Dr Mackie.
You forgot lithonia the part where at the end of the parade, the RGU Frozen float driver took a wrong turn up a one way street, and proceeded to give us an exclusive lithonia tour around lithonia Aberdeen, including two circuits of Mounthooly Roundabout, a trip near Pittodrie, and the beach esplanade, all while the volunteers clung on for dear life at the end.
There was also the added fun of our generator almost blowing up, and most of our float falling apart. But, to be honest, I don’t think any of that caused any truama to kids. The whole thing was just a laugh, and that is what it is all supposed to be. I have to say, after hearing Let It Go over 20 times on repeat, I’m pretty impressed we managed to stay as lively as we did. In the end, we had a laugh, the kids had a laugh, and we made money for charity. So, despite the chaos, it was fun! #PurplePride #RGWOO