Nearly Home

It pays to read letters when they arrive rather than put off until you can be bothered, even when you are on holiday and it's the husband you give the letters to.

Hence, the letter which arrived in our cabin last night should have been read immediately and not consigned to the read later pigeon hole.

Had we done so, we might have discovered that the assembly meeting this morning for our Scottish train group, scheduled for 7am, had been changed to 8:30am in a totally different location on the ship and we could have had another hour in bed and not been anxious when we found no-one at the first designated meeting place.

New Year's resolution no 1:- never trust other people to assimilate information on your behalf especially if they are your other half.

Far be it for me to point a finger - I wouldn't dare. Still...........

Whoever was at fault, we made it to the train and having had a 4 course meal we are rolling up through the Midlands in our Pullman carriage to the greener lands up north.

I was going to post a beautiful rose pink dawn over Southampton, but have been advised that that was too easy an option, and so I give you a blip as seen from the train just after Birmingham: a complete antithesis to the photos of our Caribbean odyssey.