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New Year's Eve. I should be at home with my family. Instead, courtesy of Virgin Atlantic and my old pal Sir Richard Branson, I will be landing at Cyril E. King Airport in the US Virgin Islands within the next hour. By the way, in case you were wondering , that is Cyril E. King in the top picture. He was the second governor of the US Virgin Islands from 1975 until his untimely death in 1978. It was cancer that got him . If all goes according to plan, I will be sped directly to Little St James aboard a jet hydroplane that Sir Richard recently renamed "The Lady Joan" after his late wife. Text messages from Rhymer on the island reveal that many of the "invited" or should I say, designated guests have already arrived. As we sometimes say in Yorkshire, "There's no accounting for folk". Some guests greeted their complimentary transport providers with unbridled joy but others raged against the prospect of an enforced New Year break in the Caribbean...