Monday 15th February At Sea. I joined one of the craft classes today and made a bracelet of tiny seed beads and floss thread. I use seed beads in some of my work, especially earrings, but have not used thread before. It was an easy 'stitch' to learn and resulted in a very pretty zig zag chain of colour (I chose sky blue beads). There are three craft tutors all doing different classes and one art tutor doing drawing/watercolours. I wonder how they get paid, or...

Saturday 13th February Day 40 (two weeks to go). At sea. The second part of Peter & Ann Hunt's talk on their Millennium Around the World Rally, this part from from Beijing to London via Canada and USA. The second part was even more entertaining than yesterday. They came 13th of the 28 cars that finished, 40 cars had started. Enclosed with today's programme was a flyer for a 120 day Round the World Cruise commencing 5th Jan 2017, on another Cruise & Mar...