I've been catching up on my e-mail tonight and have to comment on Dave MacLean's wonderful sense of humor or is it humour on your side of the pond? My Highland blood is 2 generations and about 150 years removed but the sense of humor came with my grandparents all those years ago and hopefully, I have inherited it. Thank you Dave for keeping your sense of humor and for the very vivid depiction of life in the Highlands in the more recent past. If I had known that my grandmother was born in Inverness when I was in Scotland several years ago, I would have made it my business to go beyond Fort William. Unfortunately, my husband was getting a little bit tense due to his first time driving on the "wrong side" of the road. I was also a little tense being the passenger on the "drivers side" of the car. However, I now have a good excuse to come back over to a most beautiful country. Regards, Gail Anderson Bates Researching: GORDON, YOUNG, MACLEOD and MCEWAN (Inverness-shire and Ross-shire) ANDERSON and POLLOCK (Dumfries-Galloway)