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We now have a slightly modern 4 poster pine bed and matching new furniture in the room. This along with the recently renovated bathroom with lovely powerful shower and marble décor adds to the overall luxury feel of the room. We personally love this room and we think you will too!

Since beating the Liberal Democrats into the Castle Without ward in May 2007, Catherine Bursnall has risen quickly risen up the ranks and is set to become the youngest ever Mayor when she replaces the current Mayor on May 25.

I have had the “pleasure” of seeing the current mayor, Jesse Grey, in early 2010 and I was rather under-whelmed by the experience! I am sure he is a very good person and doing a stand up job, but I did wonder how he got the job in the first place as his public speaking left rather allot to be desired.

We wish Catherine Bursnall, or Cat as she likes to be called, all the very best in her new role.

As we head into day 2 of the flight ban above the UK I’m starting to wonder if this will have an even bigger effect on even my business?

It all started as a bit of a laugh….Closing down the air space! No aircraft noise for an afternoon! Except now I’m not laughing.

If this does go on it has impacts that reach much further into the country and the economy. There are so many associated businesses around here that rely on the airport, from the thousands of airport workers to the travelling public.

This volcano could continue to erupt for weeks!

How long will this go on for

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Now it may almost be the middle of April, but it’s getting cold AGAIN! I really can  not believe it, it is due to go down to 3 C over night in a couple of nights time…

When will it ever be truly spring? We get a wonderful number of spring blue bells in the front garden, they have not even flowered yet this year…

Come on spring, where are you!

We have recently finished adding a new flat screen TV with built in digital Freeview and a DVD to Room 3 as well as having a major overhaul of the bathroom in that room. It now looks absolutely fantastic with a tiled floor and walls, great new shower and a new water saving toilet.

I would like to add my own tribute to a “brave” builder who was stabbed to death after chasing bag-snatchers in east London. He was a credit to our country and our society. I hope that given the same circumstances I would be as brave as this man.

Sukhwinder Singh, 31, was attacked on Friday as he pursued two men who had mugged a 28-year-old woman in Barking.

Mr Singh died at the Royal London Hospital. A post mortem test showed he died from a stab wound to the heart.

Barking councillor Nirmal Singh Gill said: “He would help anybody so it doesn’t surprise me he was trying to help a lady.”

He continued: “He didn’t deserve this – but he was a special young man.

“It’s a very big loss to everyone both here and in India.”

Police said father-of-one Mr Singh was an Indian national who had lived in the UK for about 10 years.

It is really rather cold here in Windsor, snow is on the ground and temperature during the day is about zero…. we are NOT used to this and my poor wife is hating it!

This picture of frost happened the other week and I’ve never seen anything like it before….

Frost

Frost on leaf

Whilst I have found out snippets of the past (which are covered on the main web site in more detail) I have just been informed by my friend Neil that the following site has a picture of Langton House as used in a Carry On Cabby film from 1963.

http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_film_locations/carry_on_cabby/

Great to see! If anyone ever spots any more old photos of Langton House PLEASE let me know!

Busy, busy, busy

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This weekend 26/27 Sept has been yet again a very busy weekend for us at Langton House as well as for Windsor. On the Sunday there were 2 major sporting events, the Windsor 1/2 marathon and the Palace to Palace bike ride (45 miles – not for the faint hearted)! Both great events and well worth doing if you every think about it, but beware of the extra traffic in town.

So now they publish the claims, but what do we see…well they seem to have learnt very little, some are so blacked out as to be worthless! If this is what we are going to see in the future, they might as well carry on as before because only if they get investigated will any wrong doings come out.
I am pretty disgusted with this sort of behaviour. Do they really think we are this stupid!