New Member Saying Hello

[Highlands John]

Oh please tell me that you don't have a Geordie accent... we'll have to have everything on here subtitled .

Oh please tell me that you don't have a Geordie accent... we'll have to have everything on here subtitled

Haha! I was born and bred here so yes, I have a raging Geordie accent haha!

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So, which one is you?

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Argh! I think I'll go back to the UK accommodation forum now!

The one with the bright red hair's parents own the restaurant at the bottom of our street so I guess I'll go with that one! What a horrendous troupe the Geordie Shore lot are!
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I could have posted Bobby Norris in his bathing suit for you but that's Essex. You know I'm only teasing. I don't expect every Geordie to be so classy
But to be honest, I think you, me and one other member might know they are. The rest didn't even know what a Geordie was until they googled it.
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I could have posted Bobby Norris in his bathing suit for you but that's Essex. You know I'm only teasing. I don't expect every Geordie to be so classy
But to be honest, I think you, me and one other member might know they are. The rest didn't even know what a Geordie was until they googled it.

The really scary thing is that the show generates tourists! *shudder*

PS The only way is up for your choice of television viewing.
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I'm an Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas kind of TV guy, with a little Graham Norton and a lot of Brendan O'Carroll kind of guy.
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I'm an Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas kind of TV guy, with a little Graham Norton and a lot of Brendan O'Carroll kind of guy.

Yeah!!!!

 

[anniesguesthouse]

Oh please tell me that you don't have a Geordie accent... we'll have to have everything on here subtitled .

Oh please tell me that you don't have a Geordie accent... we'll have to have everything on here subtitled

Haha! I was born and bred here so yes, I have a raging Geordie accent haha!

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So, which one is you?

.

Argh! I think I'll go back to the UK accommodation forum now!

The one with the bright red hair's parents own the restaurant at the bottom of our street so I guess I'll go with that one! What a horrendous troupe the Geordie Shore lot are!
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I could have posted Bobby Norris in his bathing suit for you but that's Essex. You know I'm only teasing. I don't expect every Geordie to be so classy
But to be honest, I think you, me and one other member might know they are. The rest didn't even know what a Geordie was until they googled it.
.

I could have posted Bobby Norris in his bathing suit for you but that's Essex. You know I'm only teasing. I don't expect every Geordie to be so classy
But to be honest, I think you, me and one other member might know they are. The rest didn't even know what a Geordie was until they googled it.

The really scary thing is that the show generates tourists! *shudder*

PS The only way is up for your choice of television viewing.
.

I'm an Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas kind of TV guy, with a little Graham Norton and a lot of Brendan O'Carroll kind of guy.
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I'm an Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas kind of TV guy, with a little Graham Norton and a lot of Brendan O'Carroll kind of guy.

Yeah!!!!

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Thanks John, love the signature!

 

[Highlands John]

Oh please tell me that you don't have a Geordie accent... we'll have to have everything on here subtitled .

Oh please tell me that you don't have a Geordie accent... we'll have to have everything on here subtitled

Haha! I was born and bred here so yes, I have a raging Geordie accent haha!

.

So, which one is you?

.

Argh! I think I'll go back to the UK accommodation forum now!

The one with the bright red hair's parents own the restaurant at the bottom of our street so I guess I'll go with that one! What a horrendous troupe the Geordie Shore lot are!
.

I could have posted Bobby Norris in his bathing suit for you but that's Essex. You know I'm only teasing. I don't expect every Geordie to be so classy
But to be honest, I think you, me and one other member might know they are. The rest didn't even know what a Geordie was until they googled it.
.

I could have posted Bobby Norris in his bathing suit for you but that's Essex. You know I'm only teasing. I don't expect every Geordie to be so classy
But to be honest, I think you, me and one other member might know they are. The rest didn't even know what a Geordie was until they googled it.

The really scary thing is that the show generates tourists! *shudder*

PS The only way is up for your choice of television viewing.
.

I'm an Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas kind of TV guy, with a little Graham Norton and a lot of Brendan O'Carroll kind of guy.
.

I'm an Alex Polizzi and Mary Portas kind of TV guy, with a little Graham Norton and a lot of Brendan O'Carroll kind of guy.

Yeah!!!!

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Thanks John, love the signature!
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Thanks John, love the signature!

I think my sig is more relevant to UK B&B owners, as shown by your previous comment comparing UK & US B&Bs.

 

[Mary at Bridgewater Inn and Cottage]

WELCOME ........ you will learn lots here . Best wishes and have a long run at this........ ; )

 

[Joey Camb]

Hello ! I am also a fellow Bedposts member - from Sunny Harrogate!

 

[anniesguesthouse]

Hello ! I am also a fellow Bedposts member - from Sunny Harrogate!.

Hello ! I am also a fellow Bedposts member - from Sunny Harrogate!

I saw that you were on here when I read a post that said "guest accommodation" and I thought "that's not American!"

 

[Ice]

Welcome!

 

[Lee2014]

Welcome! Glad you joined. Pull up a chair and join the crew!

 

[swaapc]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms)

 

[OnTheShore]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome Chris! Our business is very similar to yours -- vacation cottages in Maine (http://www.harborfields.com/).
Are you familiar with the http://www.laymyhat.com/ forum? -- sort of like this one, but for self-catering cottage owners, primarily in the UK and France...

 

[swaapc]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome Chris! Our business is very similar to yours -- vacation cottages in Maine (http://www.harborfields.com/).
Are you familiar with the http://www.laymyhat.com/ forum? -- sort of like this one, but for self-catering cottage owners, primarily in the UK and France...
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Welcome Chris! Our business is very similar to yours -- vacation cottages in Maine (http://www.harborfields.com/).
Are you familiar with the http://www.laymyhat.com/ forum? -- sort of like this one, but for self-catering cottage owners, primarily in the UK and France...

Hi Harborfields,
Love the picture on your web site looking through the kitchen window.
Yes I am a member of laymyhat but stopped posting when I discovered that it was populated by too many Agency businesses. I see Agencies as major competition (far more than other accommodation providers). We don't use any agencies preferring to directly market our accommodation so in the end decided to keep out of any discussions.

 

[JBloggs]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome to the forum!
Your photo is worth 10,000 words. Glad to see a UK'r with a wordpress styled template, google analytics and more.
We look forward to your feedback, stories and conversation.

 

[gillumhouse]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome to the forum!
Your photo is worth 10,000 words. Glad to see a UK'r with a wordpress styled template, google analytics and more.
We look forward to your feedback, stories and conversation.
.

Welcome Chris. Glad you could stop by. Hope you and Annie make it a habit.

 

[Highlands John]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms)

Oh no, not another ex-IT person.

 

[Lee2014]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome too! Pull up a seat and join the crew too!

 

[swaapc]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms)

Oh no, not another ex-IT person.
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Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms)

Oh no, not another ex-IT person.

Yep. Afraid so. They have to be recycled somewhere and what better than an accommodation business to keep them out of everyone else hair.

 

[swaapc]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome to the forum!
Your photo is worth 10,000 words. Glad to see a UK'r with a wordpress styled template, google analytics and more.
We look forward to your feedback, stories and conversation.
.

Welcome to the forum!
Your photo is worth 10,000 words. Glad to see a UK'r with a wordpress styled template, google analytics and more.
We look forward to your feedback, stories and conversation.

Hi,
I tried to get on with Wordpress for our main site (we use it for all our blogs) but gave up when I realised I would have to learn how to write plugins to get it to do what I wanted and our hosting service didn't offer a wordpress performance optimisation option. Although Google Analytics is on the site I rarely if ever use it as an analysis tool. I use http://www.web-stat.com/ which I find far easier to use on a day to day basis and provides far easier to understand stats (it does however cost but is money well spent).

 

[swaapc]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Question - Am I missing something. How do you tell how old a reply to a post is there doesn't seem a date time stamp against replies. Am I missing something?

 

[anniesguesthouse]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Welcome Chris, I think we should rename this thread "the British invasion!"

 

[Morticia]

Hi,
Like Annie I was recommended to your forum by gillumhouse.
Although we no longer run a B&B we run eight self catering cottages (I think you call them Vacation Rentals) along the same lines as we ran our B&B. The cottages consist of a classic UK Derbyshire set of converted farm buildings around a courtyard with the farm house (where we did B&B). Our reception is open 12+ hours a day and the guest interaction, service levels etc are very similar to those we offered our B&B guests. The only difference is we don't service the cottages daily and we don't serve Breakfast (although we did in our first few years). We have been in the business over 11 years and ran the B&B in the farmhouse for 5 of those years (we closed the B&B due to the increase in regulations).

A summery:
Education: Partial
Hobbies: I only wish I had the time
Likes: Nice guests
Dislikes: Governments, corporate bodies
Marital Status: Married for over 20 years, no children but 2 mad dogs (border collies) and three businesses
Nationality: Yorkshireman (don't worry its a part of England)
Past life: Freelance IT Consultant (specialist in Comms).

Question - Am I missing something. How do you tell how old a reply to a post is there doesn't seem a date time stamp against replies. Am I missing something?
.

Question - Am I missing something. How do you tell how old a reply to a post is there doesn't seem a date time stamp against replies. Am I missing something?

In the red/brown bar right above the post text is the date and time. And the post you are replying to. The time is off by an hour.