Christmas is nearly here again. We do like Christmas! The shortest day of the year has just passed - things can only get better now... I've been helping Ramon the Freindly Farmer to cut and chop firewood for next year (we did this years wood last year) and I've done a few days of winter maintenance work at the campsite while it's closed. It's funny - last year in Spring I worked at the campsite for the first time. I managed about three months before Juan, the Boss (owner) finally drove me nuts and we parted company. I left on "ok'ish" terms but man I was happy to be going. Then last Christmas - about this time of year and having not seen or spoken to him for many months, I dropped him a "Happy Christmas" text. He replied in kind and then in February he asked me if I was available to work there again this year. I popped in to see him and we had a chat - he seemed genuinely pleased to see me and I started back there first week of March to do prep work as the season approached. I worked straight through until mid October, two weeks after the end of season, shutting down and closing up everything. Since then I've been back half a dozen times to do bits and pieces. I was there on Saturday for the day and before I left his daughter - the manager - gave Andrea and I a big hamper full of Wine, Champagne, Baileys, Spicy Sausage, Cheese, Chocolate, Biscuits . . . . So I must be doing something right! Juan and I both wound in our necks a bit, he realised that I don't need to be micro-managed and I realised that he's a bit of a perfectionist... Adapt or die - as the saying goes. Happy Christmas everyone! Bonus.
