How did I get to "Bad Waldsee 2014 - 3.Tattoo Highlands Pipes and Drums of Bad Waldsee?"

Bad Waldsee 2014 - 3.Tattoo Highlands Pipes and Drums of Bad Waldsee

I was on YouTube but I was playing rock music so how did I get on to bagpipes? I wasn't playing one of my favourite songs either - 'It's a long time to the top if you want to rock n roll.'

 I remember now. I got distracted, as usual, from playing rock music, to something about football, and thus to 'The Old Firm' - Rangers and Celtic.

I'm a nominal Rangers fan as it happens, though as a Catholic, I 'picked' the wrong team. I was only 13 then, back in 1967, when we brought my Nana down to Southampton from Jarrow. My Mum's side of the family are  Geordies, you see. (from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.)

It's still England up there, but closer to Scotland than it is to Southampton, and Nana liked to read Scottish papers and magazines like 'The Sunday Post' and 'People's Friend' which she had delivered a couple of days later.

I liked reading 'The Sunday Post' with its cartoons about 'Oor Wullie' and 'The Broons' and of course, 'Scottish' as opposed to 'English' football. And there was no sectarian reporting in 'The Post' either, so I just picked a team, and that team was Rangers. I can't remember why? Maybe it was their long-serving player John Greig, or Davy Johnstone, or Derek Parlane. I don't know. I often picked favourite players because I liked their haircuts, pace Georgie Best!

Years later, I found out that Protestants support Rangers and Catholics support Celtic. Too late. I've never seen Rangers play. I think I might be frightened to go to a game. The Glasgow brand of sectarianism scares me more than its Belfast counterpart, where I guess sectarianism really started?

Funny thing is that I have a very good mate here in Sydney, who comes from Belfast, from a Catholic and republican area too, but his Dad is a Spurs fan like me, and he got me a 'West Belfast Spurs' shirt, my favourite Spurs shirt, too.

They have a different sense of humour over there and I never know if they are joking.

'Rangers and Celtic fans travel from Belfast to Scotland on separate ferries (and Rangers fans get the more modern ferries?)

'The only bar in Dublin where Rangers fans can watch their games is a gay bar?'

'If you fancy a day off work, you just ring in a bomb scare?'

Still, there seems to be peace there now, no bombs, no 'squaddies' killed, no sectarian murders. Maybe they could do the same thing in The Middle East?