Press release begins: I can announce that the last tile has been laid at Gasthof Hochalmspitze.  This momentous event, the culmination of so much effort by so many people, took place at 17.52h yesterday, Saturday May 4th at a small private ceremony. The location of the actual “last” tile is not to be revealed. Each [...]

Wine Tasting and Toasting Gowers’ Towers. Hello my deprived readers – fear not, there is going to be another year of entertaining bulletins from the land of the failed house painter (thank you Mark – always acknowledge your sources, and he does appreciate the publicity).  I was here in March and have to confess that [...]

It’s already Easter Weekend and once the Easter Bunny has been and brought its annual chocolate delights, we will all get down to the really important stuff of planning the summer season! We already have a number of events booked in, which you can read about here. Keep this page as a link – we [...]

To those of you have been waiting with bated breath for further instalments of the bike show reports our sincere apologies.   We have always been able to resist anything but temptation and from midweek on we gave in to a succession of invites to meet up with friends after the show.   Curry?  Why not, we [...]

Its a bike show – so before we talk about our day, we thought you deserved to see some bikes! Another day has brought us lots of interesting visitors, but this time many have been from colleagues old and prospective, often looking to build on relationships that already exist via the ever-growing links we maintain [...]

Our regular followers will remember that this time last year we were gloating a little because we had just heard that research done by @Iain_Harper for @HWdigital showed that our efforts at developing our Social Media platforms were certainly ahead of the game, at least as far as our fellow exhibitors @motorcyclelive were concerned. We [...]

Chapter 7 –Tangled Up In Blue Title courtesy of Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue – You Tube.  If you cite your source, it’s not plagiarism.  Technology, despite my avowed Luddite default, does have it’s uses.  The song finishes: “we always did feel the same, just saw it from a different point of view”.  [...]

Chapter 6 –  Family And Other Animals With apologies to Gerald (Durrell for the uninitiated – google it, oh alright I know life is short, so you would find: When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]