Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
This is the full text of the Christmas message delivered by the Governor on GBC on Christmas Day:
It seems almost unbelievable that Liz and I are now into our second year here in Gibraltar. The reception that we have received from all quarters has been extraordinarily welcoming. We have spent much of the year, certainly the first nine months, making familiarisation visits to lots of places to try to better understand how this geographically small but nevertheless immensely complicated place works. There is much more to do and much more to learn, but we do now feel very much ‘at home’ here.
Some months ago I wrote another article on Christmas. Some months ago. The countdown to Christmas has been the longest ever this year; I was still taking photos of washed up sea creatures and I was already buying Christmas gifts online. And it’s not only because the run up is too long that the magic of Christmas loses steam. Yes, I’m complaining about Christmas (see this Grinch-thing on the left*). My experience with Christmas has – looking back – not been that bad but come to think of it, it was barely a wiz-waz-woo experience**.