We drove back into Waterford last Friday night after a trip up through France, a bit of a dawdle in Sillé le Guillaume (Hotel Bretagne; great food, bad welcome) and a night on the Oscar Wilde (great welcome, bad food) and since then have been trying to draw breath.

Síle’s choir were doing their annual Carol concert in the cathedral in Waterford and she rejoined them for that.
Great to meet all the old friends again, I don’t think I have ever been hugged as often in 15 minutes. We joined them then for a dinner in Dooley’s Hotel, interesting being back to Irish catering.
And so on, our feet have barely touched the ground, we head to Cork to meet various family on Thursday, to Dublin on Friday to get a go off Le Petit Prince and in the meantime I have to organise the Christmas.
Will keep in touch.