Well bless the boys from the BBC. A perfect day for negotiating the wilder borders en route to Stranraer through snow covered mountains. Blue sky, calm seas and the Mournes looking as magnificent as I can remember them. They actually got a mention by the Blether Centre as being likely to be covered in snow. Nice thought Mr Deakin but snow there isn't. The flat calm allowed the HSS Ferry to be 15 minutes early and the only blemish was that out usual peaceful retreat in 'Club Class' was polluted by one of those boorish young men with a loud voice and an irritating mobile ring who seemed to believe that the lads in the office needed to be in constant touch and given a running commentary on the latest bright ideas which always 'came to' him when he was at sea. Fortunately for them and for us this was only 100 minutes.

So here we are-and the image shows where Huttonian will be tomorrow assuming that the good forecast is accurate. For once.  ¶ 7:43 PM