The holiday was full of surprises:

• A walk along the cliffs above the beautiful beaches of the Isle of Lewis
• A huge dinner at the guest house with DE
• A dash through a deserted Waverley Station with JM
• A tea tasting demonstration (£2.40 per person)
• Catching a glimpse of my parents enjoying a glass of white wine in a lay-by picnic as we whizzed past in the minibus on our way to visit the waterlilies

One of the participants thanked me for encouraging him to take a minimum wage job. Wealthy men, he had discovered, were at the mercy of female bottle blonde predators. He was better off single and poor.