Thursday, August 6, 2009, 08:18 PM
Posted by Hazel Cooke
Well Sunday night was a quiet evening, just catching up and thinking about sitting down to watch some TV with a glass of wine when a knock at the door and it is the Fire Service, not just one or two but four firemen and one firewoman (if that is correct term) plus fire engine, calling to carry out our inspection. There have been times when opening my door to burly firemen would be a good thing but on a quiet Sunday evening? Anouncing that they had called on a Sunday night because they thought we would be quieter, well we were but don't we get any time off? Anyway it didn't actually take too long, just a look at our Fire Log book and a quick discussion but you will understand that when I say it is 24/7 business I do mean it. We are now responsible for our own Fire Risk Assessments but still receive regular visits from the Fire Service to check on us. There has been much debate in the B&B world about the new Fire Regulations which came into force in 2006. We already held a Fire Certificate under the old legislation so were already familiar with what was required but for some of the smaller B&B's it has been a real headache, there is a lot of red tape and not always a lot of common sense.
We still had some guests to arrive and after settling them in it was time for bed ourselves that was until 3.30am when the phone rang, somebody wanting to book a room! I know that everyone hates the telephone ringing in the night and even after 11 years you still always think the worst and never that it will just be someone wanting a room. We do get calls in the night but thankfully only occasionally. So Monday morning we were not as bright and cheerful as usual but our guests that morning made us feel a lot better particularly after hearing about Paul's successful kidney transplant, a truly inspiring story, as far as we know you are our first guest with 3 kidneys! (told you I would give you a mention). Seizing the opportunity of a quieter morning we had booked the Carpet cleaners who arrived promptly at 9am and proceeded to make quick but excellent work of cleaning the carpets in all the rooms. In between we waved our final guests off wishing then happy holidays off to board their canal boat at the
local marina at Etruria. As the carpets dried it took usthe rest of the day for us to put all the rooms back together, I had just time to admire how nice everywhere was looking when our first guests of the day arrived.
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