The Parish Feast

The Parish feast is on. The Brothers are on patrol all over the place and quite a few of the people are giving them a hard time. Well, it is all part of the learning. What they do when we, the staff, are around, they are getting it hard and tight from others. But they are good guys, they'll do well. Going around the house, which is now filled with more than one thousand people, one gets to see all sorts of 'species'. Youngsters are the most strangest lot: some with their lips pierced, others with all sorts of hair dye, quite a few of them with their pants hanging on the last curve of their hip... A while ago I took a walk till the Shrine, just to see how things are. Along the many shops, stalls and tents, everyone has some place or the other. And of course, the highest number of people (men) are near the liquor shop. Most of the men folk have certainly had a packet or a bottle. Just a walk amidst them while suffice to feel the 'spirit'.