Langton House Weblog

Well after years of being without any colours, Sonja and I went mad and added a bit of colour to the site. If you have any comments I would love to hear from you.

Well its been a long old summer season, and by looking at the weather its not over yet. October and the temperature is well above seasonal norm, about 3 degrees over normal for this time of year and it looks like it may be the warmest October since records began, that’s over 350 years ago (but don”t quote me on that)!

We are generally back to pre 2001 levels of tourism in the UK, because as most people forget, in 2001 we had foot and mouth and that was followed by 9/11 which finished off an extremely hard year and put paid to any sort of recovery till now, in effect.

So we are all grateful that that part of our lives is behind us and we can look forward to many more good years ahead.

With the business slowing down now its time to take a break from all the mad work of all hours and 7 days a week work, that is until Christmas when everyone starts booking up for Christmas parties and office meals in Windsor. That reminds me I”m hungry and its time to go eat! Bye for now.

The event is almost upon us and yet again the worlds media will be looking at Windsor and more exactly Dorney for this major event. We have been booked up for months and continue to get a high number of calls for accommodation over these dates.

There is a lot to look forward to, especially the opening event, which is free and open to everyone. I shall be dragging the kids off to see what it is all about…. I sure they will forgive me eventually!

The Rowing lake is a superb facility and was part of the package that won the 2012 Olympics for London. It is used for numerous events throughout the year, from Triathlons, running races, weddings, corporate meals and even the odd bit of rowing!

I shall attempt to get to a rowing race and write up a little on my experiences.

This is where I will be writing about some of the more amusing things that happen at Langton House

So this is nothing about Langton House, but a lot to do with me! I”ve just come to terms with the awful result, but as anyone who saw the game will realise, after Rooney got sent off we had our backs against the wall and even if we progressed it was unlikely to be easy in the next round without Rooney, Owen, Terry and maybe Beckham. So the loss was not too unexpected in the end. Hopefully Rooney will become a better person after he has recovered from “letting his country down”, very much as Beckham had to recover after his sending off all those years ago. I suppose young men with so much passion have the inbuilt danger to lose their temper.

I guess I should thank our current guests for all those kind words after the game. The flowers from the Magnusson’’s was such a kind gesture and somewhat unexpected! But it made me laugh and took the edge off my feelings.

So 2006 is not to be England’s year. I saw the French play Brazil and they really deserved to win, so at least someone is playing good football. Playing that well they will easily beat Portugal in the next round and then…..who knows! Come on Les Bleu!

Well this year saw me more active in the royal watching than ever before. Firstly I got myself a few tickets to the Garter day on the Monday and invited a couple of friends to go and see the Queen and the rest of the Knights. The weather was perfect, not too much sun but still dry and warm. We got some great pictures and had an interesting time talking to people and seeing the amazing pageantry.

A couple of days later one of our regular guest from Holland, Jan, gave us a spare ticket to go out into the park and watch the royal party change from their cars into the open carriages that then take them on to the Ascot race course. This is an even intimate affair where its possible to get so close to the royal family its almost unbelievable in this day and age. It’s such a shame we didn’t have any film in the camera!

We had a very brief but interesting visit from John & Judy Mears on 16 June. They left us some samples of the wine they produce out in the Hunter Valley NSW Australia.

Sonja and I can definately recommend their wine, the only problem we have is how do we get any more!