When he got there, the bedroom was bare

Runners. Persons who leave without paying. Every hotel has them and we maybe should be lucky that we've only had two in two years here. Yesterday's was a gentleman (loose term) from Durban, Lorna's home town. He wanted to stay a couple of nights, but all we had for the first night was a family room. He was very happy with that despite the price and we said we'd move him to a twin room the next day.

And when the cleaner went in to the room he'd been in it was empty with the tv left on.
Ah well.

The place is swarming with workmen. I'm not 100% sure what they're doing but at least they're here, Because most of the areas still are nowhere near finished there is little point in photos at this stage.

Despite ridiculously high temperatures outside the cellar remains at 16C. The strip out of the old lounge bar has liberated another fan heater so the hand knitted cellar cooler may be about to get doubled in size.