Joan Blue admits to being so shocked when finding out she was to be awarded a BEM that she nearly spilled a cup of coffee on her clean carpet.
But the 89-year-old Bankfoot native also beamed with “delight” at being recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her decades of service to education and music in Perthshire.
Joan had her first piano lesson at the age of 10 and has since then embraced her talent and used it generously to support education, charities and the local and wider community.
