Lots of lovely men!

Chris has been telling me I don't post often enough on my blog and that it is getting boring, so here are some photos to liven it up. I look HUGE in my pinny, but it was just the way I was standing - honest!! The six nice young men in the picture on the left are part of a group with the Falkland Islands Defence Force and had been visiting South Georgia on HMS Gloucester to patrol the area around Cumberland Bay - I knew Geoff (second from the left) as he was at school with Ewan, and it was lovely to see him again. What a nice bunch of lads they all were. They had just come back from a long, long walk, so I made them tea and cake before they had to go back on the ship.

Some of the men on the right were Royal Marines and sailers from HMS Gloucester. The captain had 'kindly' volunteered them to carry some big sheets of plywood over the hills (probably around 2 miles) to the Maiviken hut as it is being repaired, and the least we could do was give them tea and cakes too afterwards!!! I also made a big tub of chocolate spread, and we put an out-of-date tin of jelly beans on the table, and one lad from Fiji had cake covered with chocolate spread and jelly beans stuck in it! What nice lads they all were too, and said how nice it was to get some real home cooking as a change to the food they had served up on the ship.

We had a lovely four days with that ship and also RFA Black Rover in, and even served up a nice soup lunch one day for the Commander of the British Forces in the Falklands, SG and the South Sandwich Islands and his wife, sitting outside at our picnic table in the sun. They were very complimentary about my lentil soup and shortbread.

It was sad to see the ships go, and get back to the peace and quiet of our lives here!