Gone!

They have gone! the guests have departed so now it is back to work to make ready for the next influx on Friday! I'm not sure which is the most tiring, looking after guests or working on the house? The guests demand a lot of your time, what with the cooking of meals, thinking of recipes and what will go with what for 4 nights ( each meal is 4 courses) and the general entertaining and giving of information so they can hopefully go out and explore the area it really is very tiring. Being up until they go to bed and drinking with them until 3 in the morning! ( well, you can't have them drinking alone can you?) then getting up at 7 to make sure that everything is set ready for breakfast when they finally decide to get up! Still, the 200 euros earnt will come in very handy to by some more sand and cement for the rendering i still need to do.

We have to do it all over again starting on Friday when the next set of guests arrive for the weekend, will i ever get the house completely finished at this rate? I have also just taken a provisional booking for 3 weeks in September... 3 WEEKS yee haaaar i will be completely knackered at the end of that but think of the money!!!! a minimum of a 1,000 euros or a maximum of 1,700 !!!!! now what can i spend that on? chestnut flooring? tiles for the last bathroom? new sleigh bed? or a second hand tractor so i can cut the grass in the fields? hhhmmmmmmmm i wonder.........