Glad Tidings I bring

Quick post to give festive greetings ... but I'm not particularly festive as I am full of cold and flu, snot pouring from facial orifices and a huge amount of balm tissue consumed - hence the lack of postings... I am in Leeds visiting my family and I'm sure its very seasonal out there... I'm about to find out as I have three days Christmas shopping to fit in and then I meet my daughter to do the food shop... never been so disorganised for christmas ever.... C'est la vie...

I've missed seeing a lot of friends I hd hoped to catch up with but nobody wants a red nosed Ruby Starrs even at Christmas and really my energy levels have plummeted - however I will recover and I will spend some lovely time with my family and count my lucky stars that I have family, food, shelter, presents under the tree and gin so on the note I send you all good tidings and joy, enjoy the season of goodwill an lets hope 2017 brings joy and happiness round the world.

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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