Toilet talk

I have to confess, when Richard asked me to update the blog about toilets this morning my heart sank.  How can I keep getting excited about toilets?  So I went for a little stroll over to the toilets, having not seen them for two weeks, and I can honestly say it is the most excited I have been about any toilet or shower in a long time!  It is so, very exciting to see the block work complete, doors and windows going in, roof steels up and rendering started.  The guys on site are brilliant and putting their heart and souls into the project with many working weekends to keep up with the demanding schedule.  This weekend sees the first of the flooring being laid ready for the plumbers to start installing toilets and showers and the cubicles are soon to be delivered to site.  I am sat next to a pile of slabs and tiles in the office, having been told to pick what we would like in the dish washing area.

The dishwashing area did not fail to excite either - it so big and under cover so even a damp day cannot spoil your washing up fun at Little Winnick.  The laundry room too is impressive.   I can see our dinner time table talk tonight will yet again be filled with toilets, showers and flooring discussions!

As a family we are feeling a little refreshed after a lovely few days visiting my family in Norfolk.  We were able to travel light this time as my mum has most things we would take - but it never fails to make me smile when I look at everything we need for a few days away.  To help you this year we are offering guests the chance to borrow travel cots and highchairs to make just a little bit more room in your car for all the essentials you just have to bring.

As I walked back from my toilet tour I popped into see our wardens, Steve and Jude.  This is their first winter in England for seven years so they are acclimatising to the the Cornish winter.  But as you enter their garden their daffodils are trying to persuade us it is spring down here already

as they are out in full glory.