Oh God the house keeper has a day off...

8/5/11

I woke at 6.30 to prepare for breakfast and serve it as I had kindly agreed to allow James to sleep in...the compensation being I did not have to do as much cleaning in the absence of the house keeper. When peter told us that the House keeper was going to have a day off we were still under the impression that we would not be busy so may just have to clean one or two rooms. As it happens we had 4 rooms check out and 4 rooms that required turning down... James got into the cleaning with great gusto in his vest to allow venting as it by got its feels even hotter when you actually have to work as opposed to just sitting in the sun.

James led the charge on turning down the rooms whilst I cleaned up after breakfast and I really appreciate the house keeper not as I did not realizes how much there was to clean in the kitchen! I was dispatched to make the odd bed but as James has exacting standards this was all I was allowed to do but James was suitably pleased that the Kitchen kept me busy. James did not go off lightly as there was mopping, washing sheets, towels, guest laundry and cleaning rooms to be done. By 11.30 I was back in bed listening to the BBC world service and James was finishing off. Over lunch we again remarked that running a guest house was hard but I might be OK so long as we had a receptionist, cleaning, chef and night porter. We would quite enjoy taking the cash and chatting to the guests!