Busy

Fitba
Football’s always good for the bar trade and todays match between Scotland and Ukraine (3-1 to us) was no exception. The bar is still busy and it’s shaping up to be a good night.

Food
Meanwhile in the kitchen I’ve been a busy fellow. I’ve made carrot and coriander soup, chicken liver pate, apple crumble (well, the apple bit), cottage pie filling, pesto and some boiled onion puree which is a constituent of our curries. The curry will be made next week - probably.

Faffing about
Meanwhile I’ve been trying to install the latest, hot off the presses version of Mandriva Linux on what will soon be the main office computer. Or it may become a paperweight… or a shot putt if things don’t improve soon.

Finally (but not leastly)
I suppose I really should mentione to people who don’t already know that we are on the point of becoming parents. December 4th is when it’s all supposed to happen and it’s not all clear how we’re going to keep the hotel running once junior makes his/her grand entrance. We’re on holiday for a week at the start of November and Lorna is officially Not Working from then on.

Duncan, thanks for your comments on an earlier post. Yes, in an ideal world all bookings would be by allocation, but until now we’ve been a bit wary of double bookings. With things quietening down we decided that now would be a good time to try it and it’s brought in a good few bookings that might not otherwise have been made. In fact the only double booking I’ve made in the past six months was on a room which was sold on referral.