Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Nov 21st, 2011
The wife didn’t appreciate my attempt at reassurance. Apparently being told we were fully paid up with the life assurance wasn’t the authoritative response required to her safety questions. The ledge outside our top floor suite is at least two feet wide and the moss isn’t too slippery at this time of year so despite [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Jan 7th, 2011
VAT’s gone up. Inflation is following suit. Job cuts are in the air and it would appear that Britain is battening down the hatches. Thank goodness no one seems to be telling our guests. A busy Christmas and New Year here at The Guesthouse East with a typically eclectic guestlist; escapees chrerishing life away from [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Dec 13th, 2010
Health and Safety would have had a fit seeing me stumble blindly around in the unlit loft searching for the decorations but we’re almost set up for Christmas in Eastbourne at The Guesthouse East. Almost – half the lights have gone AWOL since being packed, the sherry is already drunk (well, it was my duty [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Feb 18th, 2010
We’ve just moved to a new school and are now studying a completely new curriculum, so to speak, since we’re fresh to this whole hotelier life in Eastbourne. So to be formally assessed and graded against everything from cleanliness, service and bathroom decoration is enough to set anyone on edge. And like preparing for that school report you [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Jan 31st, 2010
If you know you Latin from your Ballroom, your Cha Cha from your Tango, you’ll be keen to hear that two of Strictly Come Dancing’s top stars Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag are putting on a performance at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne this February. If you missed the sell-out tour last year be [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Jan 7th, 2010
I’ve dusted down the barrels and even found 3 matching flights. Ok, my board looks like it came free with 2 litres of Esso oil back in 1987 (it did) but suddenly I feel I could be the new Phil The Power. The Ginger Magician perhaps? Frankly, Eric Bristow, aka The Crafty Cockney, was always a [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Dec 28th, 2009
Having a hotel in Eastbourne has its advantages – I get to sample all the delights – after all, how could I possibly recommend activities, restaurants, treatments, etc without first working out what deserves to be recommended?? I’m currently sitting here in a state of hazy bliss after half an hour in a suite here [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Dec 18th, 2009
My body seems to be telling me to slow down. Or at least to ignore Mike’s ‘encouragement’ at the regular Running Inn training sessions on a Wednesday night when we enjoy (or is that endure?) an array of different workouts along the Eastbourne sea front. Mike’s definitely the bad cop of the dynamic team (no [...]
Posted in The Guesthouse East Blog on Dec 17th, 2009
Chill wind, frost-bitten fingers, a precarious ledge and vertigo. A great combination. Hotelier life in Eastbourne with a Grade II-listed property is nothing if not rock ‘n roll – a spot of pointing above a window bay has been the crescendo of the morning after seamlessly adopting the roles of cleaner, financial analyst, website optimiser and bookeeper. [...]