“I was in Scotland, once …”

Said the checker at the supermarket on New Year’s Eve.

In all the years I’ve been shopping at this store, this particular checker has never said a word to me and I wonder how he knows I’m a Scot? He told me he has Celtic genes and that both his parents have Scottish ancestry.

“ Oh Aye?” I said, “And where did their families come from in Scotland?”  Well, he used to know, but he’d forgotten. But! he does have the family crest! He’d bought it on his one and only trip to Scotland.

“Where in Scotland did you visit,” I had to ask.

“Dublin,” he responded and said he’d had a great time at the Guiness brewery.

Spot the obvious mistake and win a major prize!

Cheerio 2007, Hello 2008

2007 was a gey year for many of our friends. We already know they will face serious challenges in 2008. So while they are included in the “Happy New Year” wish, I have to add the wish that whatever medical procedures they face will have a successful outcome.

I made new friends in 2007 and enjoyed the company of old friends.  Thanks to the Internet, I could spend time with them, without being ‘there.’ I had the most fun being a WAG (wee Annie’s gang!). We WAGs have tormented Los Andys (Andy Mack of Bluewater Radio in Canada and Andy Ross of Scottish Internet Radio.) I’ll be listening to their Hogmanay Internet hookup with Moray Firth Radio.

Now, please all stand up and join in a Hogmanay toast… “Should Auld Acquaintance be forgot… Then let’s all fling ourselves at 2008!