I had the good fortune to spend a weekend with Dave and Heather about 15 years ago. Any story you may have heard about Dave is probably true and they aren't telling half of it.
He was a wild man but in the nicest sort of way. I helped him get in wood for the winter ( he lived right on the Scottish border in a little village called Catloudy) and he and his one arm darn near worked me to death!
He's the only man I ever saw that could sucessfully operate a chain-saw one-handed.
The last time I saw him was about 10 years ago. Heather had entered local politics and Dave was driving the equipment lorry for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. They had been hit with a HUGE capital gains tax when they sold the hotel they had been running and retired and didn't have as much money as they thought they would have.

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