Ready- well nearly!!

On reflection it must have been much easier for my parents to complete winter work given they were closed for a longer length of time but in respect I can still remember the last few days before the hotel reopened its doors being hectic and a huge sigh of relief when the first guests entered and all seemed calm- or so my memory tells me, This year we have been closed for just over 3 weeks and had set ourselves a demanding and tight schedule of projects. Well that was before the weather played havoc for the first week and deliveries promised did not materialize.

However we are nearly there and despite painters still wandering the corridors with brushes and pots and engineers standing over boilers with perplexed expressions we think we are nearly there. Today we will be running a full test on the heating system which involves pumping full power and heat into the house- so I hope everybody has there holiday shorts ready and then checking that every room has the new system operating and controllable. It involves all the bathrooms running hot water and seeing how quickly the system recovers and it will hopefully all go without a hitch- or so we hope although with 24 hours till the first guest crossed the threshold we have a small window for error.

But on a positive note the new wood pellet boiler sounds and looks much better and the work redecorating the corridors has brought them up in line with the bedrooms and seem to make them all look wider and more expansive. I am certain we will find small glitches when we start to operate it all at full capacity but lets hope they are only minor incursions and that they will not affect progress. 2010 will be our 37th season at Eriska and I keep thinking it should be getting easier but in reality it probably never will but as long as we look forward with optimism it should all keep us positive!