My friend Gillian is a special kind of coach. She does teach English to Spanish speakers, but she goes further by helping them understand English customs and social norms. This helps them enormously if they are learning English for travel or business purposes.

She asked me to join her and three of her students for lunch last week, because they were interested in two things: Scotland and my Scottish accent! We had a lovely time.

Here’s the photo Gillian took of us. I was tempted to take myself out of the photo as it doesn’t do a thing for me, but what the heck. We can’t always look our best!