Well, it was nowhere near as stressful as I had imagined, made much easier, no doubt, by the fact that our first guest was lovely. I hadn’t put a page in the Welcome Pack about managing the Sky or Netflix bits of the TV – this is where you need someone to tell you that things you never think about aren’t necessarily second nature to others. So I did that. Then we had thunderstorms, which knocked the Sky about a bit, but only for a few minutes.
The week was the hottest since the planet cooled, so the fact that the instructions for the heating were also missing at the beginning of the week didn’t cause a problem.
The bread and cake in the Welcome pack got eaten, but we hadn’t considered, when filling the tea and coffee jars, that some guests prefer decaffeinated. So we’ve added those to the back of the cupboard just in case. The Prosecco remained unopened – so I need to think of something equally welcoming but non-alcoholic for guests who don’t indulge.
My husband had “borrowed” the squeezy mayonnaise from the Lodge before the grand opening. There were words. That’s all I’m saying.
The cleaning went well, too. Turning the Lodge round in 5 hours won’t be a problem, which means that we can probably be even more flexible with arrival times if we need to.
The thank you card and bottle of wine when our guest left were lovely surprises, leaving us thinking that we might just get the hang of this eventually.