The Scots have had a lot of fun over the years with the Loch Ness Monster, attracting droves of gullible Americans, hoping to catch a glimpse of the creature. Now that the Scots are making a well deserved bid for freedom we on the south of the border need to be prepared, which we are, with our very own monster, Bownessie. Last year a team of film-makers from Canada came to make a documentary for which they interviewed half a dozen people who have seen the creature, including Tommy Noblett from the Langdale Chase hotel who claims to have felt it swimming alongside him in Lake Windermere. The film has been shown over the pond to great acclaim. I was surprised to be accosted by someone the other day who excitedly told me they had seen me in it.
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Bay Villa was our first family home. Until we moved there we had lived a nomadic life in rented places, never getting round to making a home because work came first. When Joanna was a baby we lived in one place for eighteen months and when we left we realised with a shock that we hadn’t eaten a single meal in the house, not even breakfast. It was a case of get up, go to work, come back and sleep. Then, in 1994, we sold the lease of our first hotel, the Hill Foot, leaving us with only the Newby Bridge Hotel to run, which gave us a little money and some spare time to make our own home.
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