The Highland Ball was a Grand Affair

The grand Highland Ball is recognised as one of the highlights of the ball season, and this year's event was a beaut. From go to whoa, everyone had a ball.

Here's a bonny lassy with a proud laddy: Gaylene Hodge and Kim Mitchell

This is the moment that makes true Scots proud: The haggis being piped in. Weak English stomachs probably turn at the sight of the traditional delicacy (or the smell) but you can almost tell the ancestry of a Scot by the way he tucks into the haggis. The piper is David Skinner and bearing the haggis is James Willox, patron of the Highland Band

John Bishop and Jean Brough

Joan Skinner, Pat York, Helen Tear and Pat McLennan

Frank King-Turner and Jenene King

And here we have Barry Killalea, Raewynne Smith, Raewyn Riley and Michael Pomeroy

Wendy Dowling and Murray Rodgers

Ross and Vera McDonald, and Peggy and George Robinson. Above Right - Vera Turner and Ash Wells. Right - Judy Byrne, Mike Henderson, Pip Levy and Dennis Little. Below - Gerald and Julie Herron, and Noeline and Brian Georse. Below Right - Frank and Anne-fieke Pons.