It is a sad day when harmless enjoyment of caring people is upset by the ignorant and oafish behaviour of others.

If anyone finds a bird feeder dumped in his or her garden please use it. We must not let the idiots win. — Petemac.

However, I have a query. The drum major was wearing the regiment’s famous dark tartan but the pipers were clad in a predominantly red tartan. Why is this? What tartan is it?

Also, a friend told me that there is really no such thing as Black Watch Tartan. Its proper name is Government Tartan, provided by the government when the regiment was formed. Is this true? — Watcher.

[A Balhousie Castle Black Watch Museum official explained, “The red tartan worn by the pipers only during parades is Royal Stewart.

“Queen Victoria decreed all “royal” regiments should have an element of it when they parade. For most, as in The Black Watch, it is the pipers who wear it.

“Watcher's friend is also correct. The Black Watch tartan was supplied by the government because the regiments formed to watch over the clans could not use existing clan tartans.

“Their dark tartan and their role led to their nickname The Black Watch which was made formal when the regiment was formalised in 1739.”]

Why diggers are allowed on the road when they seem unable to travel faster than 15 mph is beyond me.

I have lost count of the number of times that I have been stuck behind one in a queue of over 40 vehicles.

One day recently I travelled between Dundee and Arbroath six times between 8 am and 4.30 pm and was stuck behind the same slow moving vehicle on each occasion.

It’s not fair to just blame the drivers of the wheeled 360 degree diggers.

It appears that the drivers of most of the slow, earth-moving vehicles are as guilty.

Then there are the tipper truck drivers who seem to take a delight in pulling out in front of on-coming vehicles.

Sometimes I wonder if the maximum speed limit signs are put there as a tease, mocking as they let you know just how fast you could be travelling if you were not stuck behind an earth mover.

Also the traffic cones fluorescent markings are rendered almost non-existent by dirt and grime and other road markings are obscured by mud.

While appreciating the tremendous progress that has been made constructing the new road so far, I am afraid that one of, or a combination of, these factors will result in a serious accident. — T. Rafficcone.

Being a daily user, I know where the worst ones lie (the one just past the Halfway Garage is particularly dangerous), but other motorists can get a shock. — Upset.

His son, William James Peter, was born at 104 Charles Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, on March 5, 1940, and married Jennie Stewart Vanle in Glasgow in 1966.

I am trying to contact any family members. — Donald Cameron, PO Box 23, Salluit P.Q. JOM 1SO, Canada (819-255-8908).