Lay My Hat

I don't know if age has much to do with it. There are some pretty appalling people of all ages and as night follows day they will become pretty appalling pensioners. If you do consistently find 'pensioners are the worst' , it may be that your property is simply less suitable for them compared to fam...

normally, i never interfere with my guests. Sometimes not interfering can cross the line into not helping. I cannot believe that you sat and listened to them struggling with the jacuzzi for an hour and left them to it. Don't be surprised if your French guests are wary of non-standard (to them) thin...

PDF. What a faff. I'd have to convert my word doc everytime I uodated it...that is sometimes 3 times per guest (I update the statement at each payment stage). We faff so our guests don't have to. ;-) I've used pdf for about 5 years - it doesn't make sense to use anything else because not everyone h...

I would likely find the restricted timings very irritating. If the pool is more than just a splash pool - if I could actually swim worthwhile lengths in it - I'd want to be in early morning (7-ish) and probably mid-evening. I'd be less interested during the middle of the day, not least because I'm f...

French Cricket wrote:Now what's that fat pink thing flying past my window?

I would like to state that I have been nowhere near Maison Grillou... and certainly not airborne...

CdH so different to a rental but... I know that a lot of my guests of varying nationalities (though info only supplied in French and English) read the How Things Work info because they used to greet The Inspector Cat (RIP) by name if they saw him - he featured in the "what not to do" secti...

Sam V wrote:She also wonders if the email was from the uncle or the aunt.

I also wondered if it was a GCSE question... and whether the uncle / aunt confusion might be some sort of pc LGBT thing...

I think that I will always have folders (in each bedroom as well as their sitting room) for ease of use, Bunny, not least because paper based info doesn't need charging or refuse to operate (unless a glass of red is upended and laminating would take care of that particular problem) but the more I th...

La Vache - how would you prevent your guests from amending or, even worse, deleting your information, that you may not notice on changeover? I've not used a tablet so don't know what software is on them - an adaptation of Word, for eg? If so, you simply password protect any document (not the tablet...

I agree with the posts above. a) doesn't seem unreasonable that if someone needs to stay in an area and is making plans they don't have precise day / date yet and b) the enquirer's full name should not be included - I'd reduce it to just initials. Would you risk setting up a tenancy with a booking o...

Lindsey / Lindsay is one of those Leslie / Lesley or Francis / Frances names. The male / female split used to be well understood but the division has blurred over the decades. I knew a male Lindsey who was Scottish and apparently it was quite a popular boys name there but the female form has become ...

Chilled soups (other than gazpacho) are a good start to meals in summer - when I did table d'hôte I regularly did pea and mint, pea and little gem lettuce, tomato and basil, courgette and lemon, cucumber and dill with smoked trout or salmon (hot smoked, not trad sliced smoked salmon)... there are lo...

Couple of novice eventers plus a couple of 3 or 4 year-olds. Really nice horses. But this was about 15 years ago, not recent.

She lives and breaths horses and competes, so there is no chance of it not being used. Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you wouldn't use yours - more that you'd understand my bewilderment when said friend went through about a year of discussing (obsessing) and deciding on substrates, toppings, fencing ...

'No problem', I said. I grabbed the EUR 100 and walked off with it. I did give them their EUR 4 but left a whole hour before I did that. I understand your frustration and these sound most difficult guests but really, don't descend to their level; don't play their games. Can you get the bike hire to...