Harriet Potter...

Last night in the hotel restaurant I was all on my own except for one man who soon got chatting to me. This happens very often - it's because of the English accent! He was a truck driver and part-time rodeo competitor and to him I sounded like something straight out of Harry Potter! In fact, talking to me seemed like the next best thing to meeting Harry Potter himself! He told me how he does all his lasso knots for lasoo-ing calves and then he was going to telephone his wife in Sacremento to tell her he'd met someone who sounded like Harry Potter (she's read all the books). It's worth knowing if you ever come to California that they believe you are more intelligent if you have an English accent...