We enjoyed a lovely barbeque dinner party with Sheri and Carl Lake, our new American friends, on Saturday evening. Because so many different people are having a look at this Diary now perhaps I should tell you the names of all the people present. The first picture shows Sheri at the head of the table. The other pictures show (from the left) Doina, Joy, Gavin, Carl (Sheri's husband), Laurie, Malcolm and David. What a motley crew!!

Sheri and Carl are from Houston, Texas, Joy and Malcolm are originally from Yorkshire and now call Scotland home, Doina and David are from Romania and Wales. So with Gavin and I from Scotland as well, we are quite a cosmopolitan bunch. And between us we have also lived and worked in all sorts of places all over the world. So you can imagine that the conversation was varied - to say the least!! A great evening was had by all.