In Agatha Christie’s At Bertram’s Hotel, the author describes a hotel that is still run as good hotels were years ago: plenty of smart, polite and attentive staff; roaring fires; comfortable rooms and armchairs; excellent food; an absolute delight to visit. Our experience with staying at the Victoria Hotel in Sidmouth, Devonshire last monthContinue reading “Blog 117. At Bertram’s Hotel”
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Blog 109. There was a cake…and singing.
“All clear!”, Jane called from the kitchen. “What?”, I asked, looking up, startled, from reading a fascinating article in a technical paper about the ductile brittle transition temperature in mild steel.“All clear!”, Jane repeated. ”The clearing away after dinner is done. You can come out now.”Oh dear: in trouble again. I left the dinner tableContinue reading “Blog 109. There was a cake…and singing.”
Blog 44. Ease springs on Monday?
“What are you wearing?”, she called up the stairs.My naturally fertile imagination immediately added up two and two to make five: at last, my ship had come in. Had the woman gone mad? Was there some fruity article in that Women’s Institute Magazine that had dropped through the letterbox yesterday? I pondered rapidly on aContinue reading “Blog 44. Ease springs on Monday?”
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