>I sincerely hope that what she meant by her expression 'My husband (partner to Bel) has been a guest...' is that ...

Er, just checked bel's original definition for partner and I got it wrong again.http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=9799

Either Jo was having a dig at bel for her definition of the word partner or Jo works with her (own) husband, or ...? Think I'd better desist from answering for other people and stick to something I know about.