Well, as per normal, we have been busy over the new year, with people in or out of our peak district cottages. We got to spend some time, on New years Eve, with Shirley’s friends who are staying in Lathkill for the week, but were back before 12:00 so we could get up the next morning. I am sure Shirley’s blog will say more.
Peak District Cottages - My Study
I have spent the last two days programming our ‘Booking Database’ to enable us to send out emails directly from the Database. I did a lot of the preparatory work before Christmas so I knew (roughly) what I was going to need to do. But like all things to do with technology the ‘Devil is in the Detail’. Part of the problem is that although I have written VB code for over 20 years I am not a programmer and have never really fundamentally understood what I was doing. I hack code is the best definition of how I program. It gets me there but very slowly. Especially if the documentation starts talking about object models etc. Anyhow I have now got a workable set of code. We will find out in a day or so when we sent out our first New Years Letter to Guests by email.
It’s still freezing cold here and the car park, where I haven’t cleared it, is like a skating rink. So I spent an hour this morning scattered yet another bag of salt/grit on it. Hopefully that will make it safer. I should have kept a record of how many bags of salt/grit I have used. I must be passed a dozen by now.
Chris Swaap
