THANK you to the ladies of Saltburn Methodist Monday At Eight Club, and assorted guests, who had me as their guest speaker last night and paid me with a generous cheque to the Butterwick Children's Hospice.

President Sheila Macfarlane remembered the time she was teaching near Glasgow and a geography teacher at her school had just completed a project on the Vikings.

It led to a little boy describing to his family how the Vikings lived in tents made of animal skins and shacks.

"They had no carpets on the floor – but there was plenty of rough mating," he added.