Nippers

Its that time of year again when Nippers go back into the sea and its the usual wetsuit struggle. Nippers is a surf life saving club for kids and Zac (our 8 year old Pickweller)absolutely loves it. In the Winter they go to a swimming pool and in the spring/summer they are based on Croyde beach.Its brilliant to know that when he is a teenager he can go freely to surf, aware of the dangers and with the body strength to cope with the waves.

Liza is now the proud owner of a new bike. She turned 6 last week and has spent all her birthday money on this beauty. The reason she loves it so much? It has a drinks holder. So like her Mum. I knew our last car purchase was the right one because it had a coffee cup slot!

Emily and James are here laying up for our wedding at the weekend. Its meant to be sunny so the ceremony will be outside under our Rose Arbour and the wedding breakfast in the Ballroom. I think it will be a lovely weekend.

Easter at an end :(

I was just reading my friend Deb's blog about her Easter holiday news homehouseinteriors.wordpress.com when it dawned on me that i still haven't taken down my Easter decorations...when is the official end of Easter?! I feel like they've only just gone up, i'm not ready to take them down yet

Other Pickwell news is that its changeover day so we have 5 lovely girls here getting the house ready for the wedding this weekend. Tracey is running this one so the Baker's are off to London on friday after school. Camden market..here we come!

John and Barbara, a gorgeous retired Sussex farmer and his wife who know me from my childhood came to see Pickwell today. As they left they said it was 'mind-boggling' how much work we had done in just 3 years. It is so good to hear that, as we tend to spend time thinking about what we still have to do rather than reflecting on what we have achieved.

Uh oh!

Millie-Grace, our youngest Pickweller, fell off the school Motivator yesterday and has fractured her arm...

Poor Millie!











On a brighter note..we have a fantastic new cupboard/wardrobe going in to our apartment 'Serenity' complete with a hide-away bed for a child. I am so excited by this as the room has needed it for a long time, its going to look amazing!

Adam is also here painting the outside of the house...the transformation is brilliant. you can see the difference here..

Birthday Cake

It was Liza's 6th Birthday party yesterday. She asked me last week if i could ask someone to make a cake for her as she knew i couldn't make cakes. As the feeling of inadequacy seeped into my gut, before i knew what i was doing i had announced that I was going to make her a cake, whatever cake she would like, I would make.

She asked for a bouncy castle cake with her name and the number 6 on it.

Here is the result...

Our first Blog Post

Welcome to Pickwell Manor's first ever blog, well the first one that has worked....i never have been great at technology.

So we are 2 families, long standing friends who have chosen to live and work together in a bit of a big house on the beautiful north devon coast. We host a few weddings a year and also have 8, soon to be 9, wonderful self catering apartments for luxury holidays.

We will all be contributing to this blog in our own unique styles. I hope it will, in some small way, help you all to understand where we disappear to sometimes!