23 Feb 2012

Website spring clean and chat

We had a great meeting today with our website team Design Farm. We want to offer plenty of information but also have a lively appearance to the site. Gary and Cheryl are working on an upgrade of the site which we hope you will like. We can add more itineraries as time goes on - Our 10 favourite picnic places, what to do in Helmsley, wet weather activities with children and so on. If all goes according to plan pages will load better and pictures roll past without huge delays. Links to Flickr should be easier to work and it will be possible to view all the availability calendars simultaneously. If we work on our keywords and gather up more traffic you may find more people checking out their holiday times. You Have Been Warned. Bookings have been good this winter and our summer season is filling nicely. We have availability in the Barn in May and some 5 night breaks from 25th June as we have booked the weekend of 23rd for our 120th birthday party. £590 from 25th June. There is also 4 nights at the Coach House from 14 April at £530. This weekend we are celebrating Alex and Kasia's wedding and all our children will be home. Eddie returns from Patagonia briefly before setting off on an extraordinary journey on horse to Texas. Check The Horse Boy Trek and it will explain our lack of sleep currently! Kristina is discovering the pressures and frustrations of a first year doctor in north east London while Ollie is working with an IT consultancy firm which defies comprehension. Rachel is in her second year of training to be a children's nurse at King's in London. All three live within a walk of each other which is great for staying in contact. Spring is a season of rejuvenation and hope. It certainly feels like that here.