Food glorious food

I'm off on a freebie tomorrow. It's organised by visitscotland and is to do with food tourism. It starts at 9am in Ardrossan and that means I've got to leave this afternoon (or 4 am tomorrow).

The trip takes in various food producers, restaurants and touristy places and I hope it'll give us some ideas for when we finally start serving meals other than breakfast.

After a long day and a reasonably busy night in the bar (we had the entire 12 hours to do ourselves due to staffing problems) we ambled off to bed around 12.30.

At 1.05 the phone rang. If the phone rings that late it's usually one of the guests with unwelcome news (building on fire/fallen down, wayward grandson of minor aristocrat running amok with fire extinguisher - that sort of thing). On this occasion it was the garage near the woollen mill who had a couple of tourists looking for rooms.

We were full, but that's a new record for our latest ever attempt at check-in. Please don't treat this as a challenge!