"Glenallan" <robert.black@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:3ff97af6$0$2771.

>
> I was haunted by one lady who was possessed of disbelief that
> we had fridges, washing machines, telephones and the same
> Japanese cars as they had.

Iv'e mentioned this before but in Edinburgh in 1976 one Merkan tourist asked
me, in all seriousness, if we had 'phones in Inverness.
A W-S