Treworgey News Spring 2008
New Three Bedroom cottage Opening May 2008
In May 2008 we are opening our new Trelawney cottage to sleep 6. It has fabulous views from the master bedroom, sittingroom and garden down to the Looe river. This lovely 5 cottage has three double bedrooms and three bathrooms. Please look out for full details of this on our website soon under 3 and 4 bedroom cottages.
Wireless Internet Connection
Free wireless internet is already available to all in our cosy information room. There is also a computer for guests use.
Coombe Farmhouse, Stable cottage and Orchard cottage - now have free wireless access in the cottages.
Watch this space as we plan to gradually install wireless in to of the cottages over the coming year.
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THE TREWORGEY TIMES
2007 / 2008.
We, Bevis and Linda, wrote this newsletter from Australia in December.
It did wing it's way home in time to wish everyone a very happy Christmas
and New Year. We were about to return to a Treworgey Christmas with our
children, Jo, Holly, and Alistair, having spent a few weeks visiting Bevis'
92 year old mother and his sister and her family in Tasmania. Linda hadn’t
been there for 13 years. It was interesting to see how the country and
its society has changed and developed in that time.
We wrote ......
Here we are in shorts and ‘T’ shirts in hot sunny December,
with Christmas music and Christmas decorations all around us! Very sad
to leave the family here, and Tasmania, but lovely to be going home
to Treworgey for the festivities as they should be - in winter!
TREWORGEY
NEWS TREWORGEY
NEWSrewTREWORGEY NEWS
2007 at Treworgey was a year of real progress, along
with its highs and lows. Yet again we experienced a wonderfully busy year
with so many familiar happy faces. After a warm and sunny spring, we had
a summer of mixed weather. Yet again all our cottages were awarded 5 stars
by Visit Briain.
Lots of changes made in 2007 were well received. In particular, Treworgey
Guests gave us a big thumbs up for Jasmine's new kitchen and new downstairs
shower room. A transformation.
The new information room has been a big hit too. It is colourful
and fun with lots of holiday ideas to entice you while relaxing on a cosy
sofa. The DVD and games library continually expands. After one or two
teething problems, the new wireless internet and computer installed at
Christmas 2006. is working well, and has proved very popular. While 'surfing
the net ' or DVD choosing, few can resist our new locally grown organic
mini shop selling Killigorick Farm home produced sausages,soups, chutneys,
jams and eggs. Chris from Treworgey’s meal service, leaves her cakes
and buns for the weak willed too - if we in the office haven't crept in
and beaten everyone to it!
Another new service, www.food-4-your-holiday.co.uk, started this year.
If you haven't tried it yet, have a look, you might well want to give
it a go on your next visit. Together with Chris' meals and the organic
stall here, food at Treworgey just gets more and more exciting!
Our big push to go greener hasn't been plain sailing. Our big
excitement for going green in 2007 was the instillation of our new Proven
wind turbine at Treworgey. It was installed in September, sailed magnificently
into production, only to sadly stop sailing two months later because of
a breakdown! We are told a new part won’t be arriving until early
January!
On the solar front, we now have very expensive, professionally installed,
solar tubes on Jasmine roof. The hot water produced is fantastic - the
occasional air locks are not! An inadequate plumbing design is to be modified
this winter. Doubting the experts, we have installed ourselves a DIY solar
tube system to boost River Barn's heat pump, and we have replaced the
pool’s ineffective system for a big bank of DIY solar tubes. The
benefit should be significant.
Recycling is going well and we compost where possible. While early efforts
produced a revolting slime, our composting skills are now improving!
WIN A FREE ROMANTIC BREAK AT TREWORGEY..........
What could be nicer than winning
a three night out-of-season break at Treworgey for two with a log fire
and welcome tray and champagne - as well as crisp white linen, central
heating and fresh flowers. Gift cards are available.
to show our appreciation for Cornwall’s Air Ambulance, we are supporting
them as our chosen charity this year for our usual Christmas and New Year
raffle.
We do hope that lots of you will support us. You never know, one of your
family may need them one day when you are in Cornwall on holiday! They
frequently attend serious car accidents, for example.
Please make cheques out to “Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust”
for £5. If you are a tax payer, please endorse the back of the cheque
with “I am a UK tax payer and want Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust
to treat this donation as a Gift Aid Donation”, signed and dated.
These cheques will go into our raffle hat and be drawn on January 27th,
2008. Last year, lots of people gave raffle tickets as gifts. What could
be nicer than winning a three night out-of-season break at Treworgey for
two with a log fire, a welcome tray and champagne? Gift cards are available.
Late summer and autumn 2007 brought wonderful weather. Once again it was
a lovely surprise for Treworgey to receive two Caradon in Bloom awards
for our gardens. Les collected our two shields - one was for
best gardens and one for best kept gardens, which he justly deserved to
receive.
Also this autumn, Miranda took over from Katie (a hard act to follow)
in the riding school and has proved a big hit with her pupils. Katie's
well and expecting her baby in March. Miranda is full of lots of fun riding
and pony care ideas to introduce for children in the spring of 2008.
Lucy, now coming up to the end of her first year as cottages manager,has
found it a real challenge this winter to find long enough unoccupied slots
in the cottages to redecorate and refurbish ready for 2008.
For 2008, Trelawney/ Peel will be reopened as a cottage for four. Many
of you couldn't get in for the 2008 summer weeks - this may be your chance!
Longer term plans for 2008 include the extension of our outdoor facilities
for families (Lucy and Linda have some fun ideas), and to expand the wireless
internet to some individual cottages at a time. Watch this space.
We are finishing this newsletter at Reading station, waiting for our train
home to Cornwall. We long for a good nights sleep without big hunter spiders
on the ceiling or under the bed! .... and no more snakes!
We say a BIG thank you to the Treworgey team who made it possible for
us to visit our Tasmania family after so long. Special thanks to Lucy
who has coped brilliantly in our absence and overall in her first year
as cottages manager, & Richard who has taken over from Carolyn as
office manager. We look forward to seeing all our regular guests in 2008.
Hopefully lots of new guests will find this website among the millions
of other sites and would like to join our regular Treworgey addicts, some
of whom are still coming to Treworgey since our first season in 1978 -
30 years! We have lots of guests who have been coming for 20 years
including honeymoon couples that now bring their children along ....and
the grandparents - and children that now come as adults with their partners
- and parents who are now grandparents that come back with the dog!........
Why not squeeze in a few days at Treworgey for a full de-stress, laced
with romance, nostalgia, good food, and true comfort, before Easter. Do
get in touch. It is very special for us to share Treworgey with so many
friends and familiar faces and new faces are always so welcome too of
course.
Website: www.cornishdreamcottages.co.uk Email: treworgey@btconnect.com
Tel: 01503-262730
Best wishes from Linda and Bevis, Lucy and the Treworgey team
Happy 2008 to everyone!
Spotted flowering at Treworgey Jan 1st 2008 -
Several camellias, odd daffodils, snowdrops, lots of periwinkles and 6
primroses!
2007 Treworgey Times.
Phew - the christmas and New
Year rush is behind us and we can all catch up with life again!
Spring seams to be here in the middle of winter this year! We have the
first snowdrops and lots of camelias flowering already in the beginning
of January! Last winter was the coldest we have experienced for several
years. The coming of last spring, however, brought with it the usual magnificent
carpet of bluebells in our woods, and the lanes filled with campion, primroses,
ferns and the aroma of wild garlic. Spring turned into a glorious
summer, with lots of long, hot sunny days from mid-May well into September.
Guests spent many happy days riding or swimming in the heated pool.
O ur major project of 2006 - the opening of River Barn on 22nd June -
was achieved comfortably - we had at least an hour to spare! Bevis'
sister, Jenny, and husband, Grant, and Bevis' very active 91 year old
mother, flew over from Tasmania and helped all of us get River Barn finished
on time. Bevis' mother, Lois (often known as Gamma), beavered away non
stop, painting this, cleaning that, polishing the other! We went
to endless lengths to insulate River Barn and Lois' Cottage really well,
while doing our best to maintain the vernacular architecture of the barn.
To further our green interests for Treworgey, we installed a ground source
heat pump for both River Barn and Lois' Cottage. These new technologies
caused a lot of head scratching, but eventually we got there.
T reworgey's drive to turn more green continues: recycling bins
are in place, and plans for a wind turbine and more solar panels are afoot.
An additional project for this winter is to provide, instead of night
storage heating, central heating for Coombe, Stable and Orchard, which
will eventually be fired by a woodchip boiler. New kitchens were
installed this spring in Well and Willow, and the bathroom in Orchard
was replaced. Other proposals for this winter include a
ground-floor shower room for Jasmine, and a new bathroom for Well, along
with a new kitchen in Stable. Some cottages are having controllable
electrical Eco heating installed
Wireless Broadband comes to Treworgey.............. A new cosy Information
Room openend for Christmas 2006, to house where-to-go and what-to-do info,
along with videos, DVDs, Lots of board games, tennis raquets and balls
etc and wireless broadband (bring your laptop or use the computer provided).
We have had lots of takers already.
Guests can now look up the weather, see what's on at the Eden project
or the local cinemas and theatres, or check the tide! ..... Or if
you can't relax all the time you are here, catch up on some work or study.
Having decided not to enter for any tourisum awards last summer,
we had a surprise one day in late summer when there was a firm rap, tap,
tap at our front door. We were just about to leave for an appointment
in town. Bevis answered the door only to be confronted by a group
of ladies with clip boards. “We've come to inspect your gardens!”
Bevis' patience was already strained trying to get away. “Well,
have you made an appointment?” “We don't makhought
this must be some spot inspection by the Tourist Board.Not ideal when
you are in a tearing hurry and late for an appointment “Well,
who are you please?” “We're the judges for the Caradon
in Bloom competition.” “We haven't entered any competitions.”
“No, but you have been nominated anone appointments.”
Bevis tymously.” “Oh, I see … !”
“Linda,” Bevis calls out, “I think you
had better show these good ladies some gardens!” After this faux
pas we were astounded to receive a phone call one evening, “Your
gardens have won the best commercial garden prize and the best overall
gardens!” We were stunned, and delighted, especially for Les who
works so hard with his various helpers on our gardens week in week out.
Congratulations Les, and all involved! Again this year we
achieved a 5 star rating from Visit Britain .
O ur guests here now are marvelling at the bliss of our fabulous
views outside, and peace, warmth and luxury inside. In January you can
enjoy snowdrops and camelias here, cliff walks, great food, shopping &
Eden. Cornwall is famous for spring gardens. From late February you can
enjoy over 65 wonderful Cornish gardens within the National Gardens Scheme,
not to mention the Eden Project, the Lost Gardens of Heligan and the famous
National Trust Gardens in Cornwall. Do look on www.ngs.org.uk or telephone
01483-211535.
A great present idea for loved ones ……Our winter and spring
breaks are excellent value and very popular from £210 for 3 nights
over a weekend or 4 nights midweek. Gift cards are available.
Short Break Raffle Last year we raffled a short break at Treworgey
in aid of the Send-a-Cow charity. Due to the high response, two short
breaks were won. The winners were the Riley's, from Essex, & the Airey's
from Hertfordshire. In all, we raised sufficient to purchase goats, numerous
chickens, sheep, fruit trees, fishing nets and training for several families.
Thank you so much for your support! We are offering a similar raffle
for a winter short break for two this year, with all proceeds being donated
to SAUK, a charity with which we have close connections. Many of you know
our daughter, Jo, now 25, who lives a very healthy and un-inhibited life,
walking, riding and skiing whenever she can. At 13, Jo underwent very
major spinal surgery to correct her scoliosis. SAUK provides wonderful
support to families and raises funds for scoliosis research. All monies
raised will be sent to SAUK. Thank you all.
F or entry to this year's raffle, please forward your cheque, made payable
to SAUK for £5, to arrive by the draw date on Saturday, January
27th. We will notify winners shortly afterwards. Thank you in anticipation
of your support - could this be the Christmas present idea you have been
looking for? During 2006 our busy chickens raised £125 from their
eggs to sponsor Richard on his Great South Run for Macmillan Cancer Support.
£500 in total was raised for Richard's run. Thank you, thank you
to all who supported him in financial and "in person" terms!
Happy 2007, everyone!
Best
wishes, Linda and Bevis, Lucy and the Treworgey team
2006 Treworgey Times
Dear All,
Treworgey Cottages are still the highest 5***** star, awarded after inspection
by the ETC. In addition, Treworgey has just received a silver award for
Excellence in Tourism by the Cornish Tourist Board!
Our resolution for 2006 is to be as environmentally friendly as possible.
This includes new recycling points, and new alternative energy sources
.
The major development at Treworgey last year was the opening of Lois's
(Gamma's) new cottage (just for 2 people). It has proved startlingly popular.
We are now very busy making sure that the new River Barn cottage (for
6), which opens June, 2006, is just as stunning. We are attempting to
combine environmentally friendly building practice (high insulation, double
glazing, underfloor heating etc) with traditional craftsmanship, and maintain
the vernacular architecture of the building which has a green oak pegged
roof, and thick uneven stone walls. This lovly cottage is progressing
well. The garden and patio are nearly finished and looking great - and
oh that view!
Last November 25th, Cornwall was carpeted in snow. During October we experienced
mud slides in our lane, and very heavy rain, the like of which we have
never seen in 28 years at Treworgey, and in November more snow than we
have seen since Jo was four - she is now 24! On the 25th, Linda spent
much of the afternoon rescuing stranded children and teachers from the
village school in our Landrover. Richard took the Treworgey team home
in his 4 x 4, and Bevis towed stuck vehicles and fed all the animals with
the tractor. The snow on our hill was incredibly beautiful. Next morning
some of us downed tools and went tobogganiing in the fields below. Sadly
the snow had disappeared by the evening. What a pity we didn't have lots
of children here - just all us older 'children', and a few mad guests!
We had such fun snow balling and whizzing through the snow on our tummies
on straw filled fertiliser bags, collapsing with laughter in heaps at
the bottom of each run.
It all seems so long ago now that all the primroses and blue bells
are in full flower.The gardens and hedgerows are looking fantastic now
we are in early May.
Best wishes
Linda and Bevis.
