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It seems funny having lived in this beautiful part of North Yorkshire for our entire married life (38 years and counting!) that we are still discovering great places to visit and enjoy within an hour's drive of our home. We believe that part of our latter-day careers...

First, a quick context-setting... When we embarked into the world of hospitality with our Barn - this being in a career sense rather than the cork-popping, let's have friends round sense - the world was a different place. Our model for this new enterprise was based on...

In stage parlance, when a theatre goes dark, it means it is closed. During the World Wars, the IRA terrorist activity during the 1970s and other bad stuff, our West End theatres defiantly stayed open. But not now. In fact, according to The Spectator, the last time our...

In my day job (as in "Don't give up the day job!"), I work in marketing and have done for so many years that nearly all marketing people that I come across weren't even born when I started. But some things, even amongst the plethora of demographic targeting and...

We're in business! So after four months of hard labour, literally, we finally listed Crow House Barn on airbnb two weeks ago. Kind friends, who were keen that we weren't disappointed if our listing landed with a dull thud, said that we mustn't worry if we didn't get...

The Crow House Barn Project     First, a little history…       Thirty one years ago, we (which, at that time, was my beloved, our two-year old daughter and me) bought a 17th century gamekeeper’s cottage surrounded by fields with a goodly smattering of...