Getting there...

Our bedroom finally gets a make over.
Reason being we are putting Greenbrae on the market. So everywhere has to look good! Not just the guest quarters.
My health - and both of us now ready for a life style change we hope that someone else will fall in love with Greenbrae.

Catching up!

Not exactly walking down the aisle, walking down one of our corridors.

However, they will be one day. This happy couple stayed with us Friday night and Saturday night. He has been on the telephone to us almost every night for the last two weeks. His intention - to propose to her. I had to source and obtain a very expensive bouquet of flowers, chocolates and pink champagne. Got myself into a right state wondering what to do if she said NO. However, off they went Saturday morning and he apparently went down on bended knee in the ruins of spooky Slains Castle and she said YES. This is them off for a celebratory meal at the Kilmarnock Arms, who also pulled out all the stops for them.

I am now going to market us as THE place for a romantic weekend.......

We have been very busy , very, very, busy. So it was nice to refuse bookings for the weekend so that they could have the place to themselves. We also benefitted as we could go to a friends barbecue today, Sunday. Rain, wind of course today....but who cares!

Back to...

ploughing the furrow. And ironing, bed-making etc.

We have just had over a week of wall to wall sunshine and the temperature well over 20 degrees. The farmers are very pleased as they begin to cut the crops it lessens them having to use the dryers on the cut barley grains. At night when it is quiet you can hear these dryers mumbling away.

Our visitors are mainly from Europe. French, Belgian, Spanish and Italian. Next week the Australians, seeking ancestors. More of these in September. In fact we have guests in every night now until mid September. So its on with the ironing.

I failed my MOT

Not been a fun few weeks to say the least. Being ill and trying to run a business that is people based is not easy! The swine flu was not mild in my case and has caused some damage to the 'bag pipes'. So a lot of gritting of teeth , very false grins, and some heavy breathing - but no-one seemed to notice.
Then my wee car that I have had for eleven years also failed its MOT so I finally became a yummy mummy, or should it be gammy granny?

PIG!

This is a picture of a pig (the thing on the left!)
After being very ill all week, I am now in quarantine after being diagnosed as having swine flu.
Not being totally stupid I had already took myself off into self imposed quarantine from any guests. In fact I was too ill to move, to be smiley, do their ironing, clean their floors, make their beds etc.etc.
Poor Mike has had it all to do. Now on the tamiflu I hope that I will soon be better, that I am not going to die just yet, and may even eat again, not to mention drink.
I just hope I don't find out who gave it to me. It certainly wasn't this delightful pig.

A proper day off!

Yesterday we visited the Willows Animal Sanctuary at Strichen. Zac got to see pigs, horses, sheep, goats, ducks, hens, rabbits, turkeys, a peacock et al.

He still seems to think Grandma is the funniest animal around.

Breakfasts.

I had a comment from Eugenio on my blog. So I had a look at his. He tells us of the 'breakfast' he serves at his b&b in Italy.

Offered at our breakfast table every morning is the following:

Cereal, yoghurt, fresh fruit and fresh squeezed fruit juices.

Porridge

Scottish Breakfast smoothie

Grilled Peterhead Kipper fillets

Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon

Poached eggs and Home made Tattie Scones and Bacon

Scottish Cooked Breakfast (free range egg, dry cured bacon, black pudding, sliced haggis, Aberdeen Angus sausage, fresh tomato, baked beans, fried bread and mushrooms)

Toast, Home made marmalade and jams.

Chocolate Muffins.

Vive la difference!