shakes in shoes*
They're a lovely couple - came to our wedding, and I used to accompany her in concerts in Zim, but we've got some rather embarassing stories to tell with them too.
They lived in a really posh (paid for by the DH's company) house in a lovely part of Harare (Zim capital). They invited us over to a dinner party one night along with some of their other friends. We got there, went to turn down into their drive (quite a steep hill into it) and the brakes on our (borrowed) car failed and we went straight into their brick gate post
So of course that blocked their driveway up - so none of the other guests (in their very posh, OWN cars couldn't get in). Their guard had to sit on a chair out in the road to keep an eye on them during the dinner party
THEN if that wasn't bad enough, we got into the house, feeling rather embarassed (and shocked) and down for dinner. We went to raise our glasses to say cheers, I tapped mine (and it really was only a tap) on the edge of a bowl on the table and the stem fell off - they were really lovely crystal ones too.
Amazingly they still invited us to their leaving do - and still would like us to visit them in Elstead LOL.