Going gaga.

I can't keep saying "4th April" when people ask when we're reopening.
Today I realised that I have to say "next week".
Cue panic.
To do list includes:
Cleaning, moving furniture, arranging for bin collections to restart, putting up new notice board (still waiting for it to arrive). I could go on.
But for this evening I'm off to a party to celebrate 20 years of Radio 5live with lots of former BBC colleagues.
I've packed the business cards...

Cupid?

Less than 3 weeks to go and I have finally made a start on signage.

I've made some small arrows to reassure those making their way up a long farm track. I've ordered a new sign for the end of it and asked for a quote for three more for the main road. And I've cleaned and repainted the fingerpost.  

None of these things is particularly arduous. So why does it take me so long to get around to them?

Bath buns

Once a year, before the tea rooms reopen for the season, all the people who work there go out together for Afternoon Tea. We taste other people's scones and cakes, scan their menu and look ahead to what we'll be doing for the following seven months.
This year we're going to Bath.
Our trip is on Saturday.
Two of our number are students in Bristol so the venue makes it easier for them. Plus they'd go anywhere for free food to see us again.

25 Days

It's just under four weeks until we reopen and today Spring arrived.
We are basking in sunshine.
Time was I would have worried that we should be open today but I have far too much to do before reopening and we're having a patio put down at the entrance so that's that.
The new cake display fridge was delivered on Monday which was one of the many things on my "to do list".  Other times include: signage (yep. Again.), new menus, a notice board, preparation for a photographic exhibition, cleaning, more cleaning and carpet cleaning.

Tomorrow we're having the tea rooms pegboarded so that we can more easily display pictures and photographs. I'll then have to paint it.

On Saturday it's our staff Afternoon Tea outing. Sixteen of us are going on a jolly to Bath.
I think I might have to have a rota sorted by then....