Lay My Hat

Jenny wrote:

You appear to be a lone male in female territory

To be fair, my wife Diana does nearly all of that difficult front of house stuff. I prefer to lurk in the shrubbery smeared in woad and howl at the full moon with the dogs.

However, I am responsible for pool maintenance and guests will often kindly volunteer their life histories whilst I'm trying to concentrate on the early morning cleaning ritual. Sometimes, I'll imagine myself to be a Baywatch six-pack man but then a guest will say 'do you know Jim, you're a dead ringer for that Bill Oddie bloke'.

Susan, yes I loved that History of Nearly Everything book. Cool.

Jim (Hasselhoff)

Just for you Jim.

http://www.thehoff.org/

(Is it only us wimmin who do the meet and greets!?)

I think in the main it seems to be...for some strange reason...but is it because we all deal with the bookings & build up the relaitionship?

Mr mouse is useless over email...very short & to the point, and he has a sense of humour that doesn't always come across where as I try and build up a relaitionship gently.

But I leave him to do the tour of the villa & explanations...he's much better than I am. Also if the party is a group of younger people he greets those as I think as a man they respect his authority more (I might be wrong - but its worked out OK so far)

He always does the wave offs...cos he can keep them amused whilst waiting for their taxi (always a sad time)...and anyway - I'm usually still in bed

BTW - with younger spanish we always use first names, older generation would probably be Senor/senora and ask permission to call them by their first names....strange as we wouldn't do that with UK guests

Mouse
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