It is always an optimistic time of year, full of anticipation, as we approach the first open day of the season. The blossom is out, the wisteria is in bud, the magnificent magnolia goblets opening to drink in the relative warmth of spring - indeed, the garden is running a bit ahead of schedule this year owing to the warm, dry March.
This Sunday 3rd April, we welcome in the public visitor for another year. The garden will be open from 2-5pm, and Susan will be providing her Housekeeper's homemade teas, albeit with a slightly reduced menu in early April (cakes not scones, basically...).
Why not pop along to visit us this Spring?
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Showing posts with label welcome. Show all posts
Friday, 1 April 2011
Monday, 1 March 2010
Welcome to Susan
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.
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.
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Welcome
A very Happy New Year to all who find this post so early in the life of this blog, which comes to you from the team at Iford Manor. We're still experiencing the heady trepidation that accompanies a new venture such as blogging, so please bear with us if we press the wrong buttons.
Over time we hope to bring you gardening tips, what's-on info, up to date photos as the year moves on, but above all an insight into the work that goes on behind the scenes, to ensure that the valley, the garden and the atmosphere of our peaceful rural idyll remains as it should.
This is also a forum for comment, and we sincerely hope that those who feel so inclined will chip in with their experiences, comments and, dare I say it, suggestions. As the blog develops, we'll hear more from the gardeners and the estate/farming team, so that over time, hopefully, it will become clear just how much Iford means to those that live and work in the beautiful valley.
If you found us directly, why not take a trip over to our website? It's www.ifordmanor.co.uk
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