Well it has been a while since I signed in and there is so much to tell you. I cant remember all of it but the general gist is.... As you know due to me being poorly and doctors advice we had to hand over the cottages to a letting agent, what a nightmare, I could have booked more weeks from my bed without lifting a finger!! SO needless to say we knew pretty quickly we were on a one way trip to financial disaster! It was hard to take really as we had worked so hard and it was just due to my health that we had to make this decision, it took us a long time to come to terms that a company that said how wonderful they were nearly had us in ruins. So thinking on our feet, survival instinct kicks in....We produced a planning application that would allow us to gut the Mill building from 4 x 1 bed holiday cottages to full residential of one house. It was a huge gamble, Pete spent weeks formulating documents and supporting evidence of why they should consider this for us even though it was contrary to policy. It was really our last hope of staying here, if the approval didn't come through for us we would have to put the whole lot on the market and move before it was called in really. We had put our souls and hard blood sweat and tears into this and wasn't going to leave without a fight. Then after a tense few months we finally got permission at the end of May, just in time to let our long time regular guests Keith and Myrna and Jim and Caroline amongst others the news hot of the press. We had to go from thinking this was a disastrous situation to getting exciting about the new adventure to come. It was going to have to happen so the best thing we could do was to be excited about it. No good crying over spilt milk!... But now we are really looking forward to it. We will have half the land to manage and only two holiday cottages and another brand new office for Purl, so a lot more manageable for us, especially on my not so good days. The future looks great...hard work again but great!
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