Chelsea, Gardens and Smoked Sugar
I look forward every year to The Chelsea Flower Show and it must have played with my conscience as I arranged at the end of last week to go with Ali to the Garden Centre at Banstead on Monday. We…
Heating, Builders and a visit from AO.com
Well, the weather this week has been warm by day and cold by night, so the heating was put back on at Parklands B&B during the night, allowing everyone to keep snug in bed. I hope this is the last…
Fromage, Vogue & TV
I had another appointment in Marylebone last Friday and invited a girlfriend to come with so that afterwards we could go out for lunch to The Fromagerie which I had blogged about a few weeks earlier. The food lived up to…
Summers Town
I almost feel that we have skipped Spring and gone straight into Summer. The weather has been so hot for this time of year, considering about 10 days ago we had hailstorms and sleet and it was freezing cold at…
Sun & Snow
It was a week of having friends to stay ! My girlfriend from Wales came down at a moment’s notice so she could go and watch her son run his first (and possibly last) London Marathon, which he managed to…
7,240 steps and counting!
It’s been a week of positive results!! The Orthopaedics department is pleased with my progress, which I have put down to my daily exercise routine since coming home from the hospital. And I had my 16 weeks check up on…
Spring is in the air… 8th April
We have had guests recently who really enjoy a hearty breakfast, so to keep it varied as they were staying several nights, we opted to cook them several different dishes in the morning. They were all up for trying something…
The Day & Night Manager… 4th April 2016
This past week we have been busy with three rooms. You easily forget when you have only had one room booked for the past four weeks how much work is involved when you step up from two guests to six!…
Easter Weekend… 28th March
Easter has been a quiet affair, not sure if that is down to the weather forecasts for rain and storms or that Easter was too early for tourists who chose to have a holiday in the sunshine or snow. The…
Feeling Reflective – Wednesday 16th March
I am into the second week of being at home and feeling better as each day passes. I started training this morning to get myself back into being mobile but before doing so, a girlfriend came over yesterday morning and…