Now for winter

It's been a gorgeous summer but Tash and I are not sorry that the outdoor life is over for a bit (until we go to Klosters in January).

The sailing was grand but exhausting, particularly as we had committed ourselves to a month in the Caribbean AND three weeks in the Med. It was quite a relief to go down to the Fourgiers in Sisteron and just lie about with them and their idle friends for a while.

We made some new friends among them, particularly a half-Russian, half-French art collector called Julius DeBasil. He was very proud because with help from his girl friend Annette he had just succeeded in putting illustrations into a journal which he keeps on the web. We have promised to go and see him after we leave Switzerland as he wants to show us his collection, but it's a funny sort of invitation - he says we will have to stay at a nearby hotel because he hasn't got any spare beds in his castle!