Visit England Inspection

Today we had our annual inspection from the Visit England inspector. All seemed to go very well - inspite of the water board contractors arriving 15 minites before the inspector and starting to dig up the drive and the road outside. We're confident that we will be keeping our 4 stars which was awarded this time last year.

Website redesign

After 4 or so years I've finally got round to giving the website a much needed tidy up. We have has comments to the effect 'the cottage was nicer than the photos on the website showed' which in one way is good, but we did need better photos. We will also be adding more testimonials - we now have 3 books full of great reviews but were still showing some from the original few months after we opened.

Autumn Half term

We've just spent a week at the cottage ourselves so we could get on with the yearly maintenance tasks. At least that was the idea - the weather was so mild that we managed to get several long walks in. This week we also had a new bathroom flooring put in. The existing baords had to be boarded first before the new vinyl ( lino ? ) could be laid. It was expensive but we are very pleased with the results.

New Toy Corner

In the top bedroom we have created a new Toy Corner with some additions to our collection including wooden Steiner style Toddler toys and some charming hand knitted glove puppets from Kenya. The firm favourite though is still the wooden train track with Thomas and his friends chugging along!

Tourist Board Four Star Rating

We had some fantastic news last week, the cottage has just been graded as 4 star by the English Tourist Board (Visit England). We are really pleased with the grading and have worked hard to improve comfort and quality each year. This is the first time we have been assesed by Visit England and we were both really anxious about the visit. Paul spent the morning with the assessor who was very helpful and gave us lots of useful advice.

Mundesley Boxing Day Swim

Good luck to all 75 boxing day swimmers - Better you than me !

New wooden floor in Living Room

Julian, our carpenter, has made a fantastic job on the wooden floor in the living room. He also fitted two new oak doors upstairs so that they now all match! The oak floor with the new mantle-piece and shleves makes the room look cosy and welcoming. We hope that all our guests, old and new, will enjoy this lovely new look.