It's coming up to 4pm, and I can report that the first two workshops have gone well. The day started off rather strangely, since I arrived at the Art & Craft room in plenty of time this morning, set up the tables and prepared for the arrival of my first students at 10am, only to be sat around with minutes to go wondering where they all were. Maybe, after all this, no-one wanted to attend watercolour classes? Almost on the dot of the hour,  the captain's voice came over the tannoy system with his morning report, announcing the time to be 9am. Turns out we were meant to turn our timepieces back one hour last night, and I forgot to do it!

Needless to say, despite the false start, I needn't have worried; at 10am, no fewer than 20 passengers turned up for my 'Building Blocks of Watercolour' session - and about 15 turned up to the repeat session this afternoon. Everybody seemed to go away happy, and I managed to get a few good 'action'-photos of the event.

I've received notification that I'm down for more escort duty tomorrow (let's hope I make a better job of it this time). I was wrong about Belize - seems the itinerary has been changed slightly, and we are due to arrive in Ocho Rhios, in Jamaica, at 8am in the morning.

The tour I have been assigned to will visit the home of Noel Coward, 'Firefly', and take in the home of Ian Fleming. In fact - and this part REALLY excites me - much of the film 'Live and Let Die' was filmed on Ocho Rhios, a movie I've always been very fond of, so I shall be on the lookout for familiar locations.

Tonight is the first Formal Night of the cruise, coinciding with the Captain's Welcome Aboard Cocktail Party, so I shall be sporting dinner jacket and dickie-bow, as always on these occasions. I'm also hoping to be able to stay up a little longer tonight, since both previous nights I've faded fast and been fast asleep in my cabin by 10:30. This simply will not do! (I suspect it's just the flight catching up on me).

Tell me about tiredness as i read back my message i noticed i should of wrote 'breath' but i had a well earned 2 glasses of wine & was major tired by then!!! Believe it or not i took jake out today in a flurry of snow showers which was fabulous, must of brought it back from Skye! As we left the weather was turning up there, after we had the best weather anyone had ever had there for a long time in Skye!!! I told you i had booked good weather with The Big G & he came up trumps!!!! Thank you Big G!!!I think i'm Skye lagged cos of all the exercise lovl!!! Right going to look through my pics see what i've got on my new 1 GB card, they were taking the p*** out of me for always taking pics. But i'll be laughing last with all the memories that come back with them lol!!!
have fun hun!!!
CaZ xXx;):)

I'd heard it's been snowing again - rather weird to imagine that in this heat - it's a bit 'scorchio!!!'

Of course you should take photos - these are cherished memories of moments that cannot be repeated - I'll be boring everybody silly with my photos when I get back, that's for sure, and I look forward to seeing your pics of Skye!!