When Steph phoned us last Labour Day weekend at Peter and Georgie's cottage with the happy news of Lou's proposal in Audobon Park, New Orleans, she said right then and there she wanted to have the reception at "the house"! "What house?", I inquired (having recently left Malaysia, not yet settled in Spain and being "homeless"). "The lakehouse", she exclaimed. "Ah", I replied, "the one that's not yet been built, not even under construction?" "But it will be", she assured me. And so it was…