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Thanks e-richard, we will look into getting one of those fitted. i guess oit them offers an additional appeal to guests of an 'open' phone and internet access.

HI, We have a phone/internet jack point close to our fixed wired telephone which is kept locked so that guests can only use it for incomimg and emergency calls (unless they have made prior arrangement to have the phone unlocked and paid a much larger than usual 'security' deposit to cover calls). Th...

Funnily enough the fact that referendums and forums and stadiums are now coonsidered to be technically correct and are therefore included in the standard dictionaries just makes them annoy me more. Not only do they irritate me like mad, I cannot even claim the intellectual high ground!

I did realise that entering this topic would be a minefield. Please let me point out that I am no English scholar and I make plenty of mistakes!!! I guess mt previous enrty has already made that clear and you are absolutely right her wrath does read so much better and is of course correct.

At last i have found a group as pedantic as myself. I was already wondering if I should have registered (first post today) as I have already spotted a couple of references to FORUMS. Am I the only person who shouts stadia, referenda and FORA at the radio-or indeed finds my wrath rising when I hear a...

I do agree that being completely honest is best-apart from anything else i wouldn't sleep for the duration of a guests holiday if I felt I had not been entirely truthful for fear of their response on their return home. The question I hate is 'is it safe for an x year old' or even worse 'is it safe f...

Hi I am a newbie as I see you call them! We have 2 properties in the Algarve (Praia da Luz) a villa and a new apartment. The very first guests at the new apartment were a group from Madrid who turned out to be a group of 20ish year olds. Our usual poicy (as we had always done with the villa) was for...