We’ve a group staying with us all week. Five of them. They’re working at the local factory, the one that makes coathangers. They’re working nightshift. They come home early in the morning and go to bed. They don’t need breakfast and Shirley can’t get in to clean their rooms cos they’re asleep. Occasionally we give them clean towels. If only all guests were that easy to please.
Closures and openings
The fruit shop has closed, the off license has closed, the paper shop is closing soon and one of the two flower shops is closed. However, Jacksons, the deli at the square is back open again having been closed for over a year. Colin and Debs used to run it, now it’s Philip and Deborah. We hope it’ll go well for them.
Countdown
Less than six weeks until junior is due to make her or his grand entrance to the world. Of course it could be a couple of weeks either side of that, but we should have our addition to the human race by Christmas. Lorna’s folks are arriving from SA at the beginning of December and are spending Christmas with us. Meanwhile, Tracy and Gillian our barpersons, have been showering us with baby related goodies. We have a cot, a playpen, several tons of cute baby clothes and, courtesy of the freecycle network, a pram. All free gratis. The only major item we’ve had to buy is a car seat.
Cold
Yesterday morning it was below freezing although our trailing begonias in the window boxes are refusing to die. Come to think of it, they’re refusing to trail either - they grow straight up. We’ve been lucky enough to have three very mild winters here, so it might be time for our luck to run out.
Oh, and…
it’s our third anniversary at the Spread. It’s been quite an adventure!
Comments
Duncan, thank you for your comments on allocation. That works fine if your company is the sole source of bookings, but we get quite a lot of people just looking at our website and phoning us directly. Some of them look at your website and then phone us directly too:-) And in the summer a lot of folk just walk in and ask for a room. So we have to keep the allocated rooms to one or, at most, two to avoid problems.
