The Last Four Weeks!
It has been a busy Summer, hence the lack of a blog! But I managed to snatch a few hours today to jot down what I have been up to. To start the month, Zuzanna was away for two weeks.…
Sunshine & Strawberries
June is one of my favourite months for many reasons; it’s the start of summer, gardens are full of colour - my garden this year is themed mauve white and pink – and because strawberries are in abundance at this…
Ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of…
The past week or so has seen my garden come alive with colour and also the end of my wonderful umbrella Wisteria. Being such lovely and sunny weather as well as long evenings, meant that I was able to serve…
The Merry Month of May
I decided to become a tourist for a day and arranged to meet up with an artist friend of mine at Somerset House. The weather was in my favour this day having been miserable all week. The sky was a…
Springtime for Parklands & Tooting
You wouldn’t have recognised London a few days ago, for more than a week we were bathed in glorious sunshine all day long. The whole city takes on such a different feel, the most notable of which are people/commuters/Londoners actually…
Computer says NO!
It has been full on these past weeks! Lots of guests, lots of conversations and breakfasts. Ever since we gave room only prices, there are some weeks where no one has breakfast, which is a weird feeling after so many…
For the love of Carrots…
The weather, just like our guests, seems to swing between warm and cold. There are times when guests will show up and they apprehensively ask if we are a B&B (to be fair we do not have a sign outside).…
There’s no business, like Snow business…
I would like to start by saying how lovely it was to have a blanket of crisp white snow descend on Parklands B&B and London in general. It has been several years since the last dusting which lasted all of…
Guest Blog Takeover
It has been one of the busiest starts to a year in a long time. Last year the start of January was solid and then nothing until March. This year we have a consistent spread across both months which is…
Past & Present
This is the start of my 24th year of welcoming people into my home. I am going to blog over the coming months about the early days. Thankfully, I have all my diaries and book-keeping paperwork to jog my memory as…