Wishing you all a very

Happy New Year.

The past year has been very challenging

for some of you I know

so I hope that the year ahead is better.

Last new year's day,

I wrote,

" a year in which

I  learnt to accept the disappointments

and cherish the surprises "

This year I am going to try not to over think everything.

We leave here on Wednesday

& arrive home Thursday morning.

It's been an incredible month.

The next few days will be spent cleaning the boat

and organising some repairs.

When we went to pull up the anchor today,

the motor burnt out

so we had a tense forty minutes

pulling up the anchor using ropes & winches.

Last night was spent with friends we've met on other boats over the month

watching the firework display & dancing to a live band.

We have moved into a small marina

and are getting bitten all over by mosquitoes.

Poor Jess has been attacked all along !

She is looking forward to going home having been here seven weeks

 & before that the crossing.

Unfortunately she'll just miss her friends being home from Uni.

She's going to go into her old college to do a week's free course on interview skills

& compiling CV's etc.

Then it's hunt for a job & decide what she wants to do.

Joe will have some course work to catch up on

then it's count down to GCSE's

but before that is going to New York for a week in February !

It'll be a great deal colder there than here & he is hoping for snow !

Roddy has a lot of work on the other boats he manages ahead

& I'm going to be looking for a  job too

( we are totally broke ! )

I look forward to another year of Blogging,

catching up with your news-

perhaps some more Blog dates

and great friendships made.

Happy New year to you all-

my normal random posts will return soon !!!