I must have been a really god girl this year as last night I got the best present ever.  We had a visit from my brother-in-law and his new girlfriend (L). They had travelled all day from Lincolnshire in England to spend Christmas in Scotland with N’s family.  We treated them to dinner and N was very kind to let me have a few glasses of wine to chill out. L and I hit it off pretty instantly, we had similar interests and even career paths that were sort of related. She was a bit younger