Prudence wrote:
BTW - Blue Moon, how is the cafe going? (That's assuming you have any spare time to come onto the forum!)
Moved in a few weeks ago and things have been pretty hectic....the first few days were a bit of a nightmare – I had no idea what I was doing and felt more like a very junior employee than the boss. The previous owners, who have retired, were here for nearly 20 years - the plus side is that the cafe is well established, with some loyal regular customers...but the downside is that lots of things are rundown/worn out. It needs a lot of TLC so I will be closing in January to do a refit and get things the way I want them. I've got a great new chef cooking lunches and my niece is baking delicious cakes and pastries. There's a huge amount of work to do but I'm really enjoying it – there's no way I'd go back to working in an office, sitting at a computer all day.
noblebones wrote:
Blue Moon - need some shameless promotion of your cafe, may pay a visit when we're down there next year.
Have you been to the quarry caves at Beer? The acoustics are amazing and Norman the Welsh tour guide is full of fascinating but useless facts about how various phrases originated from stonemasons.
I haven't been to the caves – it looks fascinating though, will have to pay a visit when I get the time. And yes, I'll be doing some shameless promotion of the cafe when I've got it the way I want it. Will look forward to seeing you and any other forum members who are in the area next year.