Darren is Steve's younger brother. They bought their first house together in Telford, living there for three years before Steve found a place back in Shrewsbury and Darren bought him out.

Darren followed in Steve's footsteps, starting work as an apprentice for the same IT company, although he decided to move his career towards hardware support instead of software development. He is currently a laptop specialist working for Fujitsu.

Kai used to be Kristi’s classmate in school and roommate in uni. Together they have painted a cottage, talked about boys a lot, drunk an inordinate amount of red wine, argued and made up. The friendship survived even Kai’s move to Canada and Kristi going to England. Although the phone bills would’ve been depressing without Skype.

Kai was the first person who heard about Steve and about what was going on – although others weren’t far behind since Kristi just can’t keep her mouth shut.

Kristi met Linda in the university where they had their Russian classes together. In the classes they spent a lot of time… not speaking Russian. After a year Linda moved to Riga to continue her education along more international lines. During that time the main communication was through e-mail but that didn’t stop them from finding out many… umm… interesting things about each other.

Nowadays Linda is irritated that Kristi just can’t come up with a proper plan for the wedding.

Mairi came to Kristi’s life in an extraordinarily boring English class during the first year of uni. The lectures after that were filled with scarf-fights, note-sending and chatting. Who said people in universities are supposed to be grown up? Oh yeah, that was the advanced maths lecturer.

Since then Mairi has visited Kristi in England where she’s been dragged to a salsa lesson and taken to explore Wales in the most unsuitable car possible (for reference – the only suitable car would be a Smart-car since the roads are so horribly narrow).