"So - the Mull of Kintyre has caught up with you - my family want to know where you have been for the past 20 years! I guess it seems odd because the events of 1978 were so much a part of our lives. I shall give you a little of this story, but am sending you (by "pigeon post") some very old printouts from our local newspaper of the time, which I have kept in my scrap book. Please excuse the quality, but it gives you some idea of what was going on. Firstly, a "mull" is the end of a peninsula, and there are hundreds of them all round the Scottish coast. Kintyre was our bit of Argyll, and Campbeltown the nearest town to the mull. We lived on a hillside overlooking the loch, and in the 1970s Paul McCartney bought an old farmhouse across another hill at the back of our house. He converted some of the out buildings into a recording studio, and when he married Linda they did up the house and employed a farm manager to run the estate properly. They used to spend every summer up there when the children were small, saying it was the one place in the world they could feel free to "be themselves". Our eldest daughter Kate used to collect for the local Lifeboat, and she and a friend would walk over the fields to collect a contribution, and have coffee in the kitchen with Linda. (It was a very long walk round on the road.) Paul was always very generous to local charities. The idea of the "Mull of Kintyre" came to him on a walk by the sea - and the mist really does come rolling in from the sea! He got the local Pipe Band together for a backing session and had a great barbecue on the beach after the recording had been made. We knew it was good, but it was a surprise that it became the longest running Hit Single in British history! It is interesting that we heard it several times a day at the time, and were fed up with it, but Alison said when she heard it many years later on a hot day in Florida, she was crying buckets! Paul still owns the farm, which is managed for him, but I don't think he has been there since Linda died. All the best for now (bright and sunny on the south coast of UK!)