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We run a beautiful Victorian bed and breakfast in Windermere. The garden is small but attractive with a well-positioned seat for our visitors to enjoy. There is always an abundance of colourful flowers in our hanging baskets and window boxes during the spring, summer and autumn seasons. We have put a small pebble path around a central flowerbed where there is a blue hydrangea bush and an azalea with orange coloured blossom. There is a psuedo acacia in one corner that has vivid light green leaves that give the impression of being internally lit.
The house is built of traditional Lakeland slate with red Cumbrian sandstone and although it looks like there is no mortar in between the stones it’s definitely there holding the structure together, as it has been for the past one hundred and eleven years. Most of the older houses in Windermere are of a similar style.
The birds appreciate our stone walls, in fact many have made their nests in them. These include blue tits, great tits, wrens, robins, blackbirds and starlings. In the spring it is nice to hear the little chicks chirping away merrily in our walls. We always put out food for the birds in the winter and sometimes water as well if the bird bath is frozen. They get their bed and breakfast for free.
When you walk into our porch it is painted in bright colours and there is a useful umbrella stand in the corner for visitors to place their own umbrellas in or they can borrow one of ours should the need arise. We hope they won’t be needed when people stay with us, as it is obviously much more pleasant if the sun shines during their holiday. Although if you want to see the waterfalls at their best then it’s wet weather you need.
The original pitch pine staircase and stripped pine floor boards enhance our bright and airy hall. The staircase winds it way up to the first and second floors.
The breakfast room is decorated in green and gold wallpaper with cream woodwork. The old-fashioned pine tables can seat different groups of people from two to six. The maximum number of guests we can accommodate at any one time is eleven.
We serve a good selection of products for breakfast including delicious free-range eggs from one of our local farms, Cumberland sausage, rashers of tasty bacon, fresh plum tomatoes, baked beans and scrumptious fried mushrooms. If you are a vegetarian we offer veggie sausages and potato waffles instead of the Cumberland sausage and bacon. There is always a choice of bran flakes, weetabix, cornflakes, muesli and crunchy nut cornflakes for cereals. Then we also offer dried fruit and tinned fruit, for example grapefruit, peaches, prunes, apricots and sometimes sliced melon or fresh fruit salad. The selection varies each morning. We also have a bowl of plain bio-yogurt and a selection of individual fruit flavoured yogurts. There are toasters on a table with the bread and preserves so guests can make their own toast when they would like it.