Here is a picture of Bill and Harry, the great vegetable gardeners and purveyors of pigeons, rabbits.

Just now the wall flowers are at their best, there are vases of them and flowering rosemary in the dining room.

I wish I had taken a photograph of the famous Hairy Bikers who stayed here with their team while filming and cooking in the Vale of Belvoir. The programme will be on TV in the autumn. They paid us a great compliment saying that Langar Hall was top favorite out of the many hotels they had stayed in during their last filming. The chefs were praised as 'way up there with the top 3 chefs in restaurants they had visited. I really love bikers. And I like the 'real food' they cook in unexpected places all over the world.

I also enjoyed a three day stay and conference of top professors and doctors from all over the world. The sun shone, they were relaxed and happy and we were sorry to see them go. These whole house bookings are a joy for us and the customers apreciate the unique beauty of this place, the easy quick lunches, the home made almond biscuits and the dinner at night.

So I am glad to report that Langar Hall is flourishing. We have been surprisingly busy over the bank holiday with couples escaping their children for a night away and family parties for every kind of birthday or any excuse for a celebration including loads of children playing on the trampoline and swings.

May can be perfectly beautiful in England. The best days are when lunch guests sit in the garden for drinks and coffee even though sometimes they stay there until I have to sweep them out at 7pm.

Now here is a new blog for you to try. later I'll have it added to somwhere on the web page.

http://www.lodging-world.com/

Hello again. I looked up some other hotel blogs and realise this space is for selling. Now let's think what will tempt you to visit Langar Hall ? Asparagus is coming into season and our lamb is on the menu. They are also frolicking in the field. Don't cry. They have a short and happy life.

The £160 dinner bed and breakfast for two 'special' has had an amazing response. This is monday night, the hotel & the restaurant are full of couples escaping.

I do miss some of the business men who frequented this place on weeknights before the 'crunch'. Perhaps their budgets have been cut or they are told to drive home. May I remind them of the special rate for single people doing business in the area...£75-85 room & good breakfast. Quote this blog when you book.

No where in the world is better than England on a day like today. The the sun shone, guests sat around in the garden, spring flowers bloomed and the lime trees in the avenue are at their new, lime green best. The beauty of this unique place is what I have to sell today.

Thanks to help from my grand daughter I have managed to do this second blog. Why do they ask so many personal questions? I put Afghanistan down as my country so don't pay any attention to that if you find the questions. Bingham is the centre of my Nottinghamshire English world.
Easter dull and cloudy as usual. May bank holiday is usually worse. But thanks to many loyal and new customers we have had a great weekend rushing around the dining room. We are lucky to have great customers who make every service a joyfull reunion or party.
Those who had time and inclination for a walk found the blossom blooming in the garden, daffs on their way out now, trees coming into leaf. This is the most hopeful time of the year.
On the wireless the other day a very old man who had survived 3 concentration camps during the war was asked how he managed to stay alive. He replied "Hope, cunning and grim determination" That could be a good motto to adopt in these hard times.
All year I have been collecting email addresses, promising to send out a monthly newsletter. Three months later one will be sent off next week. If you don't receive it and would like to be on the email address list just email pascal@langarhall.co.uk
Then if you are messing about on your computer with time to spare please log onto http://www.nottinghamrestaurantawards.co.uk/ and vote for Langar Hall for whatever catagory you think fits. Preferably best out of Town.
Does anyone read these blogs? I'd rather like to read someone else's. Will ask Lila aged 14 how to do that now.

First blog entry.

Hello! This is my first and very exciting blog experience.
Its Monday again and just when I was having a day off, in walk a lot of extra lunches. I left Pascal looking after a party from the local prison. Now they really know how to enjoy themselves and I am not talking about the prisoners. The best customers for general enjoyment and no complaints are criminal barristers, funeral directors, orthopedic surgeons, doctors and anyone else who experience the dark side of life during their working hours. They meet their customers during the bad times of life while I meet my customers at their best. All dressed up and happily expecting to enjoy themselves. And I am glad to say that they almost always do just that.
The sun is shining, spring is threatening to come at last and of course that brings people out to Langar where they can enjoy views of the garden without feeling guilty about mowing the lawn.
Yesterday people even sat in the garden for coffee. The sheep and lambs have had plenty of children visiting them and they are tame enough to submit to stroking. That's enough for now. Proper news later. Please blog back if you know how to do it.
Imogen

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