15 minutes of fame

[michael scuffil]

My wife and I were the talk of the town recently when we took part in a local newspaper exercise inviting people who were not thinking of availing themselves of money under the German government's "scrap and buy new" scheme for owners of old cars to say something about their vehicles.

If you click http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1233584019567.shtml on this, and scroll down until you see my name, and click on the article, and then on the pic, you will see my good self and my good wife with our two 1987 Passat Estates (good pic too, taken by the boy next door).

If you read German, you can read the article. If not, it says why I have two of a kind (I bought the second after the first was stolen but before it unexpectedly turned up in curious circumstances, and the uses to which they've been put, e.g. one was a hearse at my mother's funeral.

[gma]

The whole thing is properly 'Alice' curious, particulrly the alternate uses but the one that calls to me the most is........

what curious circumstances?

[blondie95]

now i did german a alevel only a few years ago and i managed very little of the article...oh dear