Indeed Madonna (or Mad Donald, as the locals have taken to calling her) did pay us a huge compliment by airlifting high society to the North of Scotland for her nuptials. And welcome it was, to the local economy. No doubt there will be those who will want to make the trip to see where the event took place. It's all very moving. Joan in Scotland. Yes, it would be great to find out where she went while she was there but I suspect she didn't make it so far north as my neck of the woods. She, Joan, is born to an Anderson and, as it happens my great grandparents were Andersons. As was the way of things at the time in that part of the world, once you reached the age of twelve or thirteen you had to make your own way in the world. The girls would go in to service and the boys would join the cattle and sheep drives to the south of Scotland to where the animals would be loaded onto ships and taken to the 'colonies'. These lads would work their passage on the boats and, with the animals, would land in the new worlds with fortunes to seek and adventures to experience. Most of these kids were illiterate but would manage to get messages home to broken hearted mothers by having a local chruch minister write for them. Indeed in the case of my own family, we established that some had settled in New York, California and Canada. But the link was lost and many were never heard from again. So, the way I figure it, she was on her way to see me, her long lost cousin. but I was working on the rigs at the time and we missed one another..............ahaha... .....as Chris would say, I'll get me coat! oh, and by the way Willy, regarding Subject: Joni's Lead Balloons. You're bonkers! Bless! Les (London)
