I’ve just completed the London Marathon, after months of careful training to get my fitness up.  And now I’m in a familiar world of pain.  I could do with a massage, a facial, a manicure and definitely a pedicure when my poor feet have recovered enough to hobble from the car to the kerb. And

So here we are in August  – a month totally governed by weather – it’s either too hot or too wet, too dry or too windy.  But it’s the last full month of summer and devoted to a massive gear change – holidays, breaks and changes of routine. August was named after Augustus Caesar, first

Those of you who’ve been on our Derwent and Carlton Hotel weekends will have undoubtedly seen various mentions of our most famous resident here, Dame Agatha Christie.  She’s sold more books than anyone else worldwide – very big in  the US and Japan apparently. She wrote 66 detective novels, 14 short story collections as well

Our very first post pandemic weekends season has surpassed even our expectations.  We staged 13 weekends in five stunning hotels over a six month period, taking away thousands of you.  Yes, we all battled with Covid testing, masks, and hand sanitising but we all got away and had some much-needed and overdue fun. The happy

What makes the perfect summer?   Does anyone else feel the same as me? That this is our first proper summer, after two years of hell.  I’ve been thinking about how my summers used to be pre-Covid.  But also just how much I’ve come to appreciate so much more, the basics in life, like going