Achtung! The Wheelie  Bin’s Gone Rogue

Are we back to the days of the border reivers? Have some desperadoes from Renfrewshire,  East Renfrewshire, or one of the Ayrshires been involved in a kidnap plot?  It may just be so.  Because an innocent and unassuming North Ayrshire wheelie bin has been spotted in darkest east Germany, alone amongst the thousands of Teutonic wheelie bins.

The lonely bin was spotted in the village of Viernau  a village and a former municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia.  It’s so far away from a big town I had difficulty finding it on a map.  Was it attracted by the delights  of the Berggasthof Charlottenhaus restaurant which gets  a 4.3 Good Sausage rating  (For Better or Wurst); or did it want to stay at Gasthaus & Pension Zur Alten Schmiede which gets a cracking 4.8 rating in the Bett und Frühstück guide? (That’s my made up Bed and Breakfast guide) Whatever it is our hearts go out to the lone Scottish wheelie bin in Germany.

I ask myself, as no one else will listen, should we set up a FaceBook page to repatriate the bin, rescue it from its lonely plight? Or perhaps the bin is a guest worker a Gastarbeiter, or a gastmülltonne auf Rollen that’s guest wheelie bin in the language. Ah the flights of fancy. 

However, I utterly reject the idea that the German made bin was a factory reject  which was sold off cheap to some householder in Viernau  as it failed high Scottish standards, there’s no romance in that.

And what will never fail high Scottish standards are the fine goods of James Pirie, established in St Andrews in 1890. With FATHER’S DAY just around the corner on 15th June 2025 we all need high quality gifts So I invite you to be a gastbrowser on our fine site and find a gift that isn’t a flight of fancy, but solid value for money and a fine present for the man in your life.

There’s the  HALF PRICE five star reviewed  thistle design Flower of Scotland Beer Tankard 140mm  from Royal Scot Crystal, that comes in a gift box with free delivery and free gift wrapping if you check the box at check out.  Please note this item is suitable for a short engraved message above the intaglio design. To add your personal message, search for ENGCHARGE and follow the on-screen instructions to enter your text and choose a font. Allow extra time for any such engraving. Ah so much better than a rogue wheelie bin.

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