Saturday, 21 January 2012

Front Garden under construction!

The Front Garden is now under construction and getting a fabulous new look and make over!

Piotr and his father have been working very hard for the last 2 weeks,in all weathers, drilling and lifting old slabs, removing walls and building new flower beds.

Just behind them our Brian has been doing the gardening, lifting out the old compost, cutting back shrubs, splitting plants and planting bulbs in the new beds and revamping the existing ones.

It is going to look great when it is finished, which I am told on good authority it will be another 2 weeks.

Watch out for some photos coming soon.

Friday, 20 January 2012

Festivities all over!

Well we can safely say that the festivities are now well and truly over,
but what a great time we all had!

Christmas was a big hit this year I don't think we have ever received so many lovely letters and thank you cards. The new Christmas Menus where the biggest talking point and everyone commented on the superb food that the Chefs had work so hard to produce.

New Year was really exciting and was like a real family event, the entertainers pulled out all the
stops to put on a fabulous show,

a big Thank You to all.

There was another Celebration held on the 18th December
our very own Suzanne got married to Richard and became Mrs Bartley -

 Congratulations to you both!

I have never seen a bride so laid back in my life, nothing seemed to phase her and everything was done last minute! none of this booking flowers and cakes etc well in advance. It was a wonder she managed to get her wedding dress in time, but it all went very smoothly and they had a fantastic day.

We are still waiting for the photos so if I can get one for you to see I will post it later.

On the 2nd January the hotel closed down for a 2 week break, most of the staff went off
for their annual leave taking time out to visit the Sun! or meet up with family & friends.

During the shutdown a few of us continued to work and the spring cleaning took place,
everywhere is now spic and span and we reopened our doors on the 16th for our first guests of 2012.