From then on I was quite lonely, as Anna just about moved in with Gordon, leaving me to do a lot of things on my own. But Liz and I were becoming quite good friends, although it was heavy going with her too. She smoked like a bally chimney, and drank like any Scot, a lot! To top that off, she had severe astma that was of course worsened by red wine, and the cigarettes, but oh boy, just you try and show her a piece about what red wine can do to an astma chest, and she gets all red in the face, and tell you strait out that she is definitely not interested in your opinion or anyone else's! I tried it once, but will never do so again, ever!
But things between Anna and Gordon turned a bit sour, for what reason I did not know, and she stopped going with him to his job on her days off, and started going with me again. We went to Stirling, me driving of course to pick up a young girl that did waitressing for her in her restaurant, and was visiting us for the weekend, but I was apprehensive, as in Windsor, this girl also came for a visit and brought a bally drug addict with, apparently her boyfriend, who lay in the sittingroom where Anna and self slept, and then the two of them also, and this guy stole twenty pounds from my handbag.
An older man, very nattilly dressed with a feather in his hat and a bird on his shoulder, and the cutest dog, looking everything but friendly  when first seen, was charmed and cajoled by Anna while we waited for the train until he had to smile and started talking to us. He was from the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebredis, and was on a visit to his daughter who were coming to pick him up.
The girl eventually came, and my misgivings just got stronger and stronger, as I realized that she was here to stay, and what Anna was going to do with her, I just did not know. She had to be smuggled in to our room, as Anna was scared that Joe would throw her out, and it was just not on for me, as now we would be three in that room, specially as I knew that she had no intention of leaving.
Irma told me how the kids working for Anna had abused her kindness, as she had a soft heart, and would help anyone that was in trouble, but she was unaware of how they gave free drinks to their friends!
I was maar a bitty cool, as I still remembered the money her druggy boyfriend stole from me at a time when my assets were a bit low!
Luckily Anna and Gordon made up again, and they both moved in with Gordon! All went well for a time, the girl driving around with Gordon to his places of work while Anna was working and Anna was full of talk about how well the three of them got on. Two weeks passed without this girl making any move to leave, and Anna was very easy with that, until she came upon a lot of naked photos of her young friend, taken in some or other forest, and she was quite hysterical when she came to show me, and ask me what I thought about it! I could not give her any consolation, as I did not know what it was about, but she moved back into the room, and cried a lot! I told her to have it out with them, as nothing ever came right if it is not solved!
Gordon was full of stories, telling her that it was just a plain photo shoot, and that he was immensely interested in photography, but, as she said, he must have used a throw away camera, as she had never seen any kind of camera in his house! Poor Anna, between the two of them they convinced her to move back, but I still could not trust that youngster, who looked as sweet and innocent as a newborn baby! But what bothered me was that the photos were tucked away under his underwear, and Anna found it when she was neatening things up for him, and why did he not show it to her in the first place!
The three of them looked as if they were happy together, and the village people just shook their heads, and wondered about Anna living with that man!