Prince the Reindeer

I have started to put the decorations up but Prince the Reindeer doesn’t need to be hunted out from a box in the loft like the others. Prince lives on the window ledge all year round!



Jo and I went and bought the Christmas tree yesterday morning.


It’s standing in the corner of the conservatory, still wrapped in its net, awaiting my having the energy to decorate it later today...


I wonder how many man hours per year are spent trying to make last year’s Christmas tree lights work before finally giving up and going out to buy some more?

Black Prince

This is the Black Prince in Stornoway harbour. It is a Fred Olsen cruise ship and a description can be found on the Fred Olsen website. I had not previously realised that travel descriptions were like estate-agent-speak. How’s this for an alternative way of saying that it’s a very old ship - “…Black Prince, a byword for a traditional style of cruising born in a more elegant and unhurried age…. Black Prince's classic cruising formula … combines a fun approach to cruising, whilst upholding the traditions of a bygone, more refined era.”