The generation game

This last weekend we had two separate sets of people staying at Number Fifteen. Not unusual, but what was rather nice was that in both cases their parents had also stayed here. Good to know that we get recommended to other family members. Although we've been full all week once again it was a quiet one on the catering front, with all our guests just requiring breakfast. I have however sorted out the photos from the afternoon tea I did the previous week and thought I would post one here. I'm taking a weekend off myself and am going to Nice. Nice has something like 300 sunny days a year and yet there is heavy rain forecast for both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. And what is more it has been sunny most of this week in Hoylake!

Hilbre Island Walk

We had a great group of people here this weekend, a family meeting up to celebrate a 50th birthday. They had grown up in Hoylake and were full of interesting stories of Hoylake 40 or so years ago. One had delivered newspapers to Number Fifteen when he was a boy, several of the group had been in this house as youngsters, and between them they remembered much about the various houses and occupants of Stanley Road in those days.

Saturday morning, at low tide, the whole family walked out to Hilbre Island Nature Reserve, armed with packed lunches from Number Fifteen. They returned in time for afternoon tea and birthday cake served in the lounge here, before heading out to dinner in one of the Hoylake restaurants.