The lengths I go to have a well trained dog to greet guests! It is now time for our black lab puppy to go to school. First she did the village hall classes but now we have graduated to joining the URC and I am attending gun dog training at our local branch. Ok I am the worst handler there, but its all a learning curve and watch for the news of ‘immaculately trained dog welcomes guests’. If pigs can fly …………..
Arches of the bridge in Reybridge flooded by River Avon
Just going for a casual walk to view the floods in Reybridge and lo and behold there was a couple taking their parrots for a walk! Very well mannered and well kept they looked too.
I've heard of hawk walks but this was a parrot walk!
Lacock certainly does not stand still. The month of May will bring events at the Abbey such as The Amazing Technicolour Gardens and Bat watch and at the moment, the Michael Palin photo exhibition. Theres also the Scarecrow Trail for families at the June bank holiday.
After the successful photo seminar where the Old Rectory rooms were used for the ladies to practice on, one farmstay member came up with a really professional shot I thought. You almost expect a sort of ghost to enter the shot as you look at through the mirror.
What is it about the British and our love for animals. Well yesterday we had a horror story, my Princess Ruby a Jack Russell
got stuck down a badger hole! For two hours hubby and I were digging her out. It was getting dark and at one point I could hear her cries from right under the roots of this cedar tree in our garden. I really thought we were going to lose her but then she managed to turn round and back til we just caught sight of the white tip of her tail. We grabbed it and hauled her out. What a relief with just a very sore shoulder to show for the trouble
It must be the birthday season, quite astonishing. Had one group for a 60th birthday. Had one couple with birthday on one day and his wife’s on the next and then whole house was booked (like a little private party) for another birthday weekend. Perhaps I should consider another B&B for one of my families’ birthdays!
Family Sexton in Sri Lanka
It was interesting to see the other side recently when we enjoyed a holiday of a lifetime in Sri Lanka. We stayed in some 8 hotels some big, small and boutique and all offering different experiences. It makes me realise every property has its own merits and how different things are important to different people. For me its the overall experience as well as the individual touches. I hope I’ve brought home some extra ideas that apply here as well as in the tropics!
There is nowhere that looks so Christmasy as Lacock. Pretty lights adorn the old houses and this week the National Trust are opening the shops late for some extra Christmas shopping. Great menus and offers at pubs too, ooh is all so enticing. Guests here are now for Christmas parties so we’re really getting in the mood.
Angel was bought for us by a kind guest last year.
Great excitement, last night we saw on BBC 1, an historian who stayed with us while he was filming ‘If walls could talk, a history of your home’. This week was about kitchens from the middle ages to the present and about in the middle cooking in the 17 century. The only fire in the country which still has an operating spit with a dog wheel is that The George pub just 5 minutes walk from us. Incidentially it was nearly my dog that was chosen to work the spit for the programme. However they chose another more stocky terrier in the end. Not really Ruby’s cup of tea anyway. Hard labour turning a spit wheel. Glad we live in the 21st century!
We were delighted to accommodate an American journalist in the summer who has written a very interesting article in the European Jetsetter Magazine. You can read the piece by Jerry Neminac by clicking on the following http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/hotels/europe/england/oxford/oxfordshire.html
http://www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/hotels/europe/england/oxford/oxfordshire.html
