News
Some of our latest news, thoughts and the odd bit of helpful advice.
New Season - New Website
We hope that you like our "New Look" website - we've been working hard on it this winter. We're rather pleased with it and believe that with all the extra pictures it allows us to show off both Spreacombe and the wider North Devon area to their best effect - its also "responsive", meaning that it works well on a phone and tablet as well as the traditional pc - definitely a 2016 requirement. Also on the technological front, many of you will have noticed that we had Wi-Fi installed at the cottages last year. I refer to it as "rural" Wi-Fi ; we are definitely not in a fibre optic area but...
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Summer 2015
We've the been pleased to welcome some new and returning guests and are delighted that the sun keeps puttig in an appearance. Henry Hare, (or is it Henrietta?) thinks he can't be seen - Spotted early evening in the meadow - one of his favourite haunts. The sheep and peacock are somewhat less discrete.
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Getting Ready for the 2015 Season
We're all busy at work getting ready for opening at Easter. It's lucky we have an account in the local paint shop as everything is looking very shiny at the moment, in particular the laundry has had a complete revamp - Bookings are starting to come in and as we get ready to open there is always a full inventory audit which tells us what purchases are needed for the coming season. We lookforwards to seeing you soon.
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Walking around Spreacombe - May 2014
We are really pleased with how the new walks are taking shape around the estate. Having bought a new mower and employed Jamie, we now have clear walks from the cottages, over the fields and around the larger pond. There are baby duckings on the pond that move at an amazing speed and more tadpoles than I care to count - funny, I didn't know that we had any frogs.
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