No room at the Inn

Four friendly Austrians showed up last night looking for two double rooms. We only had one double room left, so they stayed at Mrs Irvine's B&B instead. They did come back later for some malt whisky. They liked Glenfiddich and Glenlivet but were not so keen on Talisker which, although from Skye has the smoky antiseptic taste characteristic of Islay malts. Glenlivet is a milder tasting malt and Glenfiddich is just plain boring.

Currently there's no-one booked in tonight, but we are full for the following four days. It's a bank holiday weekend you see (the third this month) and the weather has turned cold and wet in preparation for it.

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Thanks for your comments Aarlene. The picture makes the hall look better than it is - it's actually very dark despite the new lights, so we're going to paint the bottom half a light terracotta with contrasting colour on the mouldings. The walls above will be white as will the front doors.

The current work involves restoring the function room (where all the structural stuff happened), a complete refit of one of the family rooms and a refit of the bathroom of the other one, refitting the upstairs kitchen and turning the old lounge bar into a breakfast/dining room.
All that should be finished at the end of the first week of July.
There's also work going on with electrical, water and drainage throughout the building.


After that we need to stop and see if we can afford to do anything else this year. If we can, we'll get the four rooms at the front of the building refurbished and do some general decoration of the public areas. That may have to wait until later in the year though. Stay tuned!