My first year in Gilling­ham is com­ing to an end. I would like to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to thank all of you who took the trip out here to vis­it my study/schoolroom. I know its a long trip for some of you and I real­ly appre­ci­ate you com­ing here. As most of you know by now I will spend the rest of Decem­ber and all of Jan­u­ary in Thai­land. Busi­ness as usu­al will resume from 2nd of Feb­ru­ary but I am hap­py to take book­ing in advance so don’t hes­i­tate to email me. I wish you all a Mar­ry Christ­mas and all the best for the new year. As usu­al I offer you all a chance to sug­gest what Miss Sven­son say in this cartoon.

Lat­est  sug­ges­tion for the car­toon:  “Now you match San­ta’s rosy red cheeks young man!”  —  Rudolph had a red nose and you are going to have a very red bot­tom, boy”  — ‘So you though this was the sea­son of good­will, did you?’ —   I said look at the tree every time you look away it will be anoth­er TWELVE -