…………but in battalions.  Bit like buses really, wait ages for one and then lots come at once.  I have just posted chapters 3 and 4 of this year which due to a misunderstanding (mine, naturally) have just been sitting there like Patience on a monument waiting for something to happen to them (and a slight [...]

Not wishing to confuse, dear reader – but probably failing dismally already! – Jane has finally got round to starting to update her blog from June/July and to fill all you lucky people in with things you may never have realised you needed to know about! Anyhow she is working up to the present day, [...]

Interesting that we are writing yet another blog about guest reviews so soon – but this one from an entirely different standpoint! Yesterday we got (in very quick succession) our first set of very poor reviews (on 3 sites from the same couple). Of course we recognise that you can’t please all of the people [...]

It is always really nice to get a good review! And as we have said here before, we have been very fortunate with the reviews we have been receiving from our recent guests, who have said some really tremendous things about us and our staff. Today, though, things have gone to a new level with [...]

Today’s nice surprise! Unexpectedly in the post comes  a ‘Recommended on Trip Advisor’ sticker and a letter of congratulations from the company on receiving 5 or more user reviews with an average rating above 4 (out of 5). In fact we have 11 reviews – 7 Excellents and 4 Very Goods – and this is [...]

It may be touching the mid thirties on the terrace in the middle of the day – which is just a tad TOO warm to be sitting out there for long! – but by night its a pleasant mid twenties and the perfect spot for catching up on al the day’s news and getting to [...]

This week the geocache hidden by our friend Monika & Achim was found and for the first time someone came in to claim their ‘surprise’ – a large Guinness — by giving the code word (which we can’t tell you, because  you have to find the cache too!) Well done Stefan! Share/weitersagen:

Never At A Loss for Words (Back to the Beginning will have to wait) It’s Saturday and the sun is shining fit to beat the band, as it was yesterday and to match last year’s Gang of Four, we have the Magnificent Seven.  Who are as lunatic a collection of oddities as their celluloid namesakes [...]

Even in paradise it seems ‘the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley’ (Robert Burns). Not so long ago it seemed like we had our staffing situation all under control and looking good. Sadly chickens were being counted well before their time! Our first much anticipated cook turned out to be great [...]

Now that we have help in the kitchen (and Jane arriving tomorrow to improve things even further!) John is ready to start offering his guided tours for anyone who is interested in such things. He had a bit of a ‘practice’ session on Saturday with our German guests and was pleased with how things went [...]