This is just a shortish note to wish all our friends a seriously good Christmas and a happy, healthy, prosperous and satisfying New Year.
 
We are still ensconced in our cosy wooden lodge at West Loch Shores inTarbert and are both working . Gina is doing training stuff with a hotel on the Cowal peninsula which involves commuting to work across a wild and windy Loch Fyne once or twice a week and then sitting in a bar all day. Just like being back in Greece really if it weren't for the fact it is either bloody freezing or pissing with rain or both! Today is only the fourth dry day since our return.
 
Rob's work seems to involve going to meetings, sitting in the office here staring out of the window at the glorious views down West Loch Tarbert and then attending further "important conferences" in the local hostelries on a regular basis.
 
Social life has been pretty good too. Loads of reunions with old friends, dinner parties and a family party near Birmingham - no really! - Birmingham - and it was a hoot.
 
Getting about has been pretty good too. We asked our son, Will, to acquire us a car to last about 3 months for a few hundred quid. He got us a 2.8 litre Audi Quattro! It really is great fun and is turning Rob into bloody Jeremy Clarkson - waxing lyrical, shouting excitedly and stuff like that - nothing new there then! However, with petrol at over a pound a litre his enthusiasm is likely to be short lived.
 
We will be spending Christmas with Will and Angela before heading South for a couple of weeks to do a grand tour of family and friends via Pittenweem, Chippenham, Somerset, Newbury, West Wittering, Clacton and Nottingham. - exotic or what!!
 
We will be returnng to Greece at the end of January where we have taken a wee village house on Leros while we spend a month getting the lovely Tiercel ready for another hard season of cruising.
 
Have a great Christmas and the New Year of your dreams.