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Brand New Nesting Box Seeking Suitable Tenant
The current excitement in our world if not yet in the birds’ world, is a brand new nesting box, complete with wi-fi camera, recently bought from the RSPB shop at Carsington. We’ve been promising ourselves one ever since we had so much interest and enjoyment last year watching the blue tits in our (camera-less) nesting [...]
The long awaited new oak tables for Tom’s Barn
We had long been planning, although somewhat dreamily, about updating the side tables and bedside cabinets in Tom’s Barn. They were all part of the original furniture eleven years ago when Tom’s Barn was born; they had seen good service but even eleven years ago were not exactly from the toppest of ‘top drawers. Our [...]
Reserve List for Last Minute Availability
Both Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns are fully booked now until August (Douglas’s Barn) and September (Tom’s Barn). But when people have booked well ahead, cancellations are always on the cards so we are starting a ‘last minute reserve list’ for those who may have been too late to get the date they wanted earlier. We [...]
Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns: our New Website
Our new-look website was launched late yesterday (Wed 12th Jan) afternoon. Jeremy Brough our webman and friend has worked hard on this, and so in a more modest way have John and I. Now it is up and public we are standing back and patiently tweaking oddities but Jeremy has done such a good job [...]
Revamping the Website for Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns
We have some exciting news about our website, which sometime next week will transfer to a new format. It won’t look very different, but technically it will be. And it should look (even) better. In fact, if we were selling a soap powder I expect the headline would have been ‘New Improved!!!’ ‘Now even better [...]
Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns – Romantic Getaways
- ‘Extra Special Country Retreats’ – We are delighted to report that our barns are featured in the February Country Homes & Interiors magazine, out today, as one of their four selected Romantic Getaways. They must have St Valentine’s Day in mind (which rather impractically for a romantic short break this year falls on a [...]
A White Christmas for Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns?
- and a new telly for Douglas’s Barn bedroom – It looks highly likely the snow will stay. Both lots of Christmas guests have arrived safely, and managed to get their cars up the final slope. The barns are warm and snug as usual, and feeling very Christmassy especially with the snow outside (although there’s [...]
Chatsworth Attic Sale
We had a very busy week but not so busy that I couldn’t be tempted to go to this momentous sale with our very good friend (our parents and grandparents were friends) Liza, who drove here from near Oundle on Monday, armed with her £30 Chatsworth Attic Sale catalogue, weighing 4lbs and looking like an [...]
‘Champagne & Shopping’
This will only be of interest to local friends and readers of our blog but I can’t resist sharing a tip/putting in a plug for this event. The 2010 annual DRCS Shopping Fair takes place this week at the Maynard in Grindleford (S32 2HE for those reliant on a Satnav.) Om Wednesday between 4 – [...]
Celebrate New Year in Douglas’s Barn
What a treat for someone! Do you fancy a memorable week in Douglas’s Barn at the end of the year, seeing out 2010 and welcoming 2011? We have just learned this evening that the week is unexpectedly available again, having been booked for months by the same couple as came last year and had so [...]
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