Janet's Blog
I've been doing a lot of looking back this last week – daughter No 1 hit her 24th birthday and it's made both Angus and I stop and think back over the last 17 years. Why 1 7years I hear you ask? Well 15 years ago this spring the marina opened for business, which means that 17 years ago it was
Janet's Blog – Winter 2025 What a cold but lovely start to the new year! My Nan always used to say you need a cold spell to finish off the winter bugs and my goodness last night at -6 was certainly that. However, looking back, not wasn't quite as cold as the first winter the marina was open
Well autumn is well and truly here it's fair to say. I saw a quote once by Jim Bishop – that "Autumn carries more gold in its pockets than all the other seasons" and, walking round the marina and at home I have to agree. There's been an abundance of apples in the orchard at the farm
Janet's Blog What a grand time I've been having lately! Some time ago I had a phone call from Christine Cottrell – she and her late husband Rodney, a very dear friend of ours, set up the Audlem Lass Boat Service and also the Overwater Wheelyboat. This year is the 200th anniversary of the RNLI
Well despite the weather it must be spring because both the Audlem Lass and the Wheelyboat are back in the water. Year in, year out the launch of those two little boats never ceases to bring a frission of excitement in the marina office – it really does make us look forward to the spring and summer.
What a whirlwind the end of 2023 has been! Christmas flew past in a haze of mince pies, mulled wine and tinsel (love it or hate it – nothing says Christmas to me more than tinsel, even though Carol in the office visibly shudders at the mention and daughter No.2 just rolls her eyes at me). I love the
Janet's Blog Well it felt like summer was never going to get here, and then all of a sudden it was hot, really hot! It was so lovely to see the sun in September, but why oh why does it always have to time it for when the kids go back to school? That said this is a momentous time for us – Daughter
As I write this, I’m sitting on the top step of the bridge over the marina entrance – we called it the Jubilee Bridge when we built it, as it was Diamond Jubilee year. We did invite HM to officially open it, and got very excited to received a Buckingham Palace embossed envelope – but it was
It must be spring as I seem to be buying more and more seeds and flowers for our gardening club – they have the most amazingly green fingers so I simply can't complain. Every year they turn the garden by reception, and the area by our greenhouse, into a staggering array of colour. How come some people
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