After all my past scrounging of free board and lodging from my relatives and from my fellow xmarkers, it is long overdue that I should fettle up Ann's old room as a guest bedroom. I will organise a new carpet and two single beds. A place for xmarkers and their partners to stay while touring the Scottish Borders, rich in rolling scenery, fortified tower houses and the history of border reiving and the border clans, Armstrong, Elliot, Johnstone, Moffat, Scott, Turnbull...etc... Though you will need to share my bathroom with me, I am told by my 'merican friends that 'mericans don't like sharing bathrooms, but my house only has one bathroom, that is just part of the culture over here in Europe. Let me know in good time if you want to stay here when you come to Scotland.