Notes from aboard the Endless Flying Dinner Party
Whew.
It’s quite a shock to realise that the last proper entry I made in this journal was at the end of June. The weeks have flown by.
We’re nearly at the end of the most hectic part of the season, the bit I’ve privately nicknamed The Endless Flying Dinner Party (with apologies to the late great Douglas Adams). Each day is a blur of cleaning, ( Read more... )
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As I type this there are four Dutch kids running about just outside my window yelling at the tops of their voices. Fortunately two of them are leaving today. We've had as many as six young kids here at times, and that was sheer bedlam.
September's busy but not quite so pressured, and hopefually I'll have more LJ time. I might even manage to get back to the fanfic. Tracey's been stranded at Kings Cross for far too long.
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They may, as I, have once been ticked off by an elderly relative for not making the bed on the day of departure (it was not, I hasten to add, a sheets trodden all over the floor style incident) and lived with the fear ever since. Though I assume that people whose job involves stripping and making beds would rather I left it easy than all tucked in, others may be more paranoid!
Hope September allows you to relax a little and rescue Tracey!
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Thanks - I'm hoping so, too.
Though I assume that people whose job involves stripping and making beds would rather I left it easy than all tucked in, others may be more paranoid!
From the point of view of the "stripee" it doesn't make much difference. The most efficient way we've found of stripping a bed quickly is to lift the corners of the fitted sheet and bundle everything else into it, after removing the duvet and pillow covers. French guests tend to strip the bed for you, which saves no end of time.
I think you're dead right about the reason the bed-makers do it. They tend to be people who leave the room pristine for the same reasons. Best sort of guests to have for B&B owner :-).
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