We're very excited to welcome Susan who has joined us as our new housekeeper. She brings an entourage of Alan and Louis[e!], a bosc monitor and a red tegu respectively (photos to follow), and partner Su.
Susan is a proud local lady, with strong Wiltshire roots, having been brought up in in Hilperton and Holt. We're particularly looking forward to the advent of local Wiltshire-style cakes - recipies passed down through the family. In preparation for the summer season, experimental biscuits have so far proved a hit with the usual suspects around the kitchen table.
Small world that it is, Susan reports that her Auntie Joan worked at Iford from 1925-1928, as part of Harold Peto's staff - it is quite extraordinary how circular life can be. However Susan joins a much changed environment from Peto's day - and we all know that 'housekeeper' is a mere title: the job is far more challenging and varied than any name could it justics (and she has to keep us under control for starters!). The manor kitchen is the societal engine-room for the team, the family and visitors alike, and Susan has already made it her own. The perfect start, I'd say.
We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship for many years to come and hope that Susan will settle into and enjoy the challenges facing not only the tearoom and the house, but also the integrated development of the estate business and everything that goes on to keep the valley in the condition we strive for.
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Welcome to the blog of Iford Manor and the Iford Estate, which sits at the heart of an idyllic rural valley on the Wiltshire-Somerset border, two miles South-West of Bradford-on-Avon. The Iford Blog is an opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes at Iford, and how we work to maintain the atmosphere of this charmingly romantic valley.
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