Thanks to everyone for your generous comments.
It is still raining heavily and the forecast is for even more rain. It is too heavy at the moment to be out-of-doors with a camera, but I may try later - it's becoming wilder more dramatic.
Erik, Mikes, Frank, Jakov, Anthony and me - we were all participants in the Scotland Week (May 2016) and make up 1/3 of the number who took part. I wouldn't mind organising another such week if there was any enthusiasm for it, and Hugh, Bent, Fons, Mongo and Keith - you'd get a second chance at
Paradise Scotland.