This is the end my beautiful friend Dec 2012

Finn, it’s 05^th January 2012 and the world has changed, the sun is shining, the sky's bluer and everything's better…we’ve finished it. It’s finished, it’s over. In reality it feels like I’ve been let out of jail, finished a sentence, got my, our lives back.

Finn Takes Charge of the Chantier..Dar Finn!

I’m sat at home listening to Don Letts on BBC radio 6, don’t know if you’ll be able to get this but if you can…..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xx6w

is a great show... loved the orb, it’s another great evening in and there’s such a lightness of being…it may sound crass, but it’s not. Something very, very, very difficult has finished, it’s over.

For so long this build has been omnipresent, everywhere, always, relentless.

And then it stopped. We finished. We won.

And now, having so frequently felt so unimpressed by the hotel, ex Tazi, now Darr Finn, it’s really wonderful, beautiful, stylish. I’m proud of what we’ve done. It’s been a nightmare, and I mean that sincerely, but we got through and now it’s great.

There were times we thought it would never end!

We’ve got a beautiful house, outstanding Dar, great you and Beccie, and gorgeous projects to develop. It feels good and that feels odd, rare. And now we’ve done it.

There’s more, much more to say, but the bottom line is well done us.

I called your mum when I was in the South and she said…”don’t speak to me, I’m on that mountain in Slovakia. I’m moving forward because I have to..because there is no other choice….” And from this at the end of October, we had our first guests for Xmas!

Ask her, she’ll tell you...another nightmare I dragged her on...not sure she enjoyed that too much, though it was nice when it was over...Slovakia that is..not sure she'd agree about the trip...but that's a whole other story...But I digress.

The bottom line is that in the last 2 months we went from this...to a finished house, a hotel, with our first guests for Xmas.

Of course it was a nightmare, and of course we saw things differently. But your mum took charge and just did it! We've got lots of learning about us to do, perhaps it's too soon to start that and a well earned holiday in S India beckons first, but by god it's an amazing feeling to be able to say...IT'S FINISHED!

We did it. Thank you. And thank you Beccie, it really never could have been done without you.

I love you Finn. I love you Beccie. 2012 Fantastic, Fantastic, Fantastic xxxxx