Have Martin Frickel cook for you

Would you like to have Martin Frickel cook for you? More and more these days, we see groups having a reunion stay here, decide to treat themselves to an evening with dinner cooked for them by a chef. They talk passionately the next morning about how great it was and...

What is a Singing Bowl?

If you have ever heard about sound baths, or singing bowls and wondered what on earth they are, I can highly recommend getting in touch with Laura-Jane Clare if you are coming to stay here. I have had a the luxury of having Laura-Jane set up her Quartz crystal singing...

A Day in the Lake District : In search of Landscape Art

So on my vision board wish list last year and this year has been an image of a circular stone sculpture, a piece of landscape art, that is one of many out there in the Lake District, now termed, the ‘Borrowdale Banksy’. The weather forecast predicted...

The Arts & Crafts Movement at Blackwell

Do you ever even think of a building in relation to the Arts & Crafts Movement? Take a visit to Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, and you will start to see all the little details in a building differently. A great place to visit if you are looking for...

A Day in the Lake District : Sunday Rituals

What are Sunday Rituals? Do people still have routines these days that are the same, week in, week out? We discovered what a few of them may be on our recent walk amongst the hills of Troutbeck in the Lake District. A campervan already sits by the river in the carpark...