Scott and Stephen had just been killed off the show in the episode Prestonpans; I was very unhappy that “Angus” was dead, because that’s not what happened in the book, damnit!

Scott’s community theatre was struggling and he threw this little party to raise money, a Highland Fling he called it. At the time I was following him on Twitter and he sent me (okay, ALL his followers) an invite. Stephen was so sweet and funny — at one point he slipped my glass of champage out of my hand and replaced it with whisky :-).

Now the Fling is a massive fundraising event every year … but this was the first one.