Posts By: Elizabeth

Behind the scenes running a self catering business

We aim to give our guests a truly enjoyable and memorable holiday experience  so it’s not an occasional once over every few years with safe magnolia paint throughout because it’s cheaper and easy to touch up but it’s Farrow and Ball in colours that we think appropriate to each cottage and its surroundings. So, at this time of… Read more »

Happy New Year!

  New Year’s Eve – a lovely day and I walked around Boscrowan with my new camera. A present from David to take wonderful photos for our website and facebook page. One of our 2 buff Orpington cockerels in the daffodil field Yes the two Boscrowan daffodil fields are beginning to flower already – the… Read more »

A bit about our thatched cottage

When we bought Boscrowan in 1999 this building had a rusty wriggly tin roof but the angle of the pitch was less than 45 degrees and our suspicions that it had been originally thatched were confirmed by two thatchers. Ring and Thimble was completed it in 2005 and have just this week had the ridge and under the… Read more »