We have to have one of these on site! This is clearly a fine example of a Scottish Drndle. Note the Lutheran neckline.
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At the Oktoberfest Despite being Scottish, I rarely drink in the afternoon. Make Mine A Mass - oh and get us a packet of vinger crisps too. People have often asked me, when is the Oktoberfest and the surprising answers is the last two weeks of September and the first two weeks of October. This is such a popular festival that Bavarian television broadcasts the beer festival all day and then fills the news with Oktoberfest material. Now I would have thought that a tv broadcast about people drinking beer and eating Brezeln, Weiswurst and Senf (that's pretzels white sausage and mustard, although to compare any German Wurst to a sausage is a bit like comparing The Parthenon to a sandcastle) would not gather a large audience. But apparently all those elderly citizens, of which this country appears to have an inexhaustable supply, watch the fest on the telly. The broadcasts have a straightforward formula. Interviewer (who could be anyone as long as they are Bavarian) " Hello every
It`s a small world I often tell my friends and German relations here, that back in Scotland there were so many members of my family that I couldn't walk along the high street without bumping into one of them or someone would say "Oh your Margaret's son, aren't you?" One of my cousins mentioned that she suspected we had at least 70 cousins and so to test this theory, I started to build my family tree on Genes Reunited. Hilariously the first person I found on it was my daughter, the second person was my neice who I think is living in England and the third person I found was one of my cousins living on the other side of the world. I you add this together, we could go on one of those round the world tickets now, cos I have an uncle in Hawaii, my best friend lives in Hong Kong and we have another Uncle in San Francisco. Just need some relatives in New York now and we are made!