As we are both feeling so much better, we are able to
take on a few more things. The current project is to try and get our self
catering cottage up to speed. Having had to close both cottages three years ago
when we were diagnosed with MDS, we have started marketing just one of them -
Swallow Cottage.
In the past three years the Internet has changed a lot. I
can do simple blogs and full screen websites. But now I find for modern
marketing you have to master Facebook, Twitter, smart phone based web design,
and the latest ways of getting Google to notice you. Luckily Roz has been using
Facebook for a few months, so she is managing the cottage Facebook site. And I
am getting some help from friends on the rest.
Tomorrow we are reloading the names and addresses of
previous guests for a mail shot.
Our first guests since we reopened are coming in a week,
so we also have some last things to do for that. We had the AA rate the cottage
as **** but we were told to put in an LED TV and docking station for smart
phones! My, how things have changed.
In addition Roz and her friend are trying to organise
some dates to run felt making, jewellery or even ceramics workshops here on the
farm.
Getting back to doing more is great, but a little scary
at times. We get brought back down to Earth when we have clinics, or I have my
5 weekly bout of chemo. My 18 th bout finished last Tuesday and was the least
problematical, touch wood, so hopefully they we will stay like that.
