Earth Hour

Well Earth Hour as been and gone. We switched off lights where possible, excluding hall lights for safety reasons for the guests and we're sure that nobody knows we did except for ourselves and you now as you're reading this!! We were disappointed that the lights at Whitby Abbey were left on, it wouldn't have harmed for them to go off and would have had some people talking about why, but we are pleased about the general media coverage which has been more than we expected.

We hit the Gazette again on Friday because of our nomination for "GTBS Best Performer Shortlist". They still manage to misinform about the napkin issue, but nevertheless it can't do us any harm. We're off to Harry's Bar tonight, one of our favourite places to eat in town, to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary.

Haven't we had a busy day?

We started out by going to Botton to buy some jam & dried fruit for breakfasts. If you've not been it is a great place to go, very spiritual. Botton was the subject of a C4 documentary a few years ago, The Strangest Village in Britain. We go several times a year, the bakery does fantastic bread.


After that we went to The Moors Centre having received an invitation sent to tourism businesses in the area. Had a lovely lunch in their tea room and picked up the "Out and about in the North York Moors" guide which has lots of events in the diary - will try to add the interesting ones to our online diary. Picked up information on deliciouslyorkshire breakfast which we are going to join as we already meet the criteria.




On the way back we stopped at St Oswald's church Lythe (top of Lythe Bank past Sandsend). Not quite on a par with St Mary's up by the Abbey, but still worth a visit.

Earth Hour

8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009

We will be supporting Earth Hour

VOTE EARTH

YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE

Whitby Archive Closed

Whitby Archive has unfortunately closed due to lack of funding. This is sad for both the residents and visitors to Whitby, many who come and use the Archive resources to research family roots. Hopefully some more funding will be found to keep this local facility running. Here is a link to the article in the Gazette which broke the news.

Whitby Archive centre is shut down

Who's been a silly boy then?

Fairly quiet at the moment so we decided to go out for the day. Lovely meal in Dalby Forest at the Treetops Cafe and then on to Scarborough to go to the cash and carry. About half a mile from the C&C we got a phone call from Sue, one of our guests - " we can't get in, somebody has dropped the latch" - guess who? When I had left the laundry out in the porch to be collected I totally forgot that we had guests in and dropped the latch on the inner door. Won't do that again as we had to turn around and come back without ever getting to Booker C&C.

Red Nose Day

Just Donated the money we saved by sending e-cards at Christmas to Red Nose Day. We didn't think that the show was very good, not very funny - maybe we're just getting old!!

We aim to be Whitby's Premier Guest House

Our "Strap Line" is We aim to be Whitby's Premier Guest House - Well we've made Number 1 on Trip Advisor. Quite daunting really as we now want to stay there and there are some good places to stay in Whitby. Check out the reviews on the link below.

• The Waverley

Green Advantage

We have both just been to a training course run by the Yorkshire Moors & Coast Tourism Partnership. One thing that we learned was about the "Eco button" - an auto hibernation device for the PC which puts the whole system in standby and restarts quickly, great idea. It also shows how much you have saved on screen when you restart. Click on the globe if you want to know more.