Christmas Spirit

As Christmas is just around the corner (where did the year go to???) everyone here is trying to transform the Inn to match this special time of year. The stereo is playing all-time-favourite Christmas songs and the decorations will be coming out of their boxes soon.
We are furthermore filling up for Chrismas Day Lunch bookings.
Talking of Christmas Day: What are your plans for Christmas? If you don't want the stress and hassle of cooking for everyone, why don't you check out our Menu. You can choose between plenty of dishes, all the favourite Chrismas Classics. And you won't even have to do the washing-up afterwards...Why don't you treat yourself and book a table.

The Climb of your Life-to Raise Funds for Charity

The step-dad of my receptionist's boyfriend and a group from his church are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro as we "speak", in the heart of Africa, between the 20th-28th November in order to raise awareness and funds for Autism in South Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest freestanding mountain on earth and its peak towers 5895 meters above the sea level.

The group of guys really deserve our respect and applause as non of them are experienced climbers, but they still took this great risk for such a good cause. As far as I know they reached the summit last night, which took them 6 days in total, and are now on their way back down, to safer ground. All but one made it to the top, which is an unbelievable achievment and I hope that he gets better soon!

More information and a more detailed day-to-day description of the climb can be found on www.zoopy.com/awckilimanjaro. Go and check it out!

The Alternative Party Night

We have a very special treat in store:
Mundell Music and the Inn at Lathones bring you this amazing alternative party night.Everyone needs to get into the party spirit and we thought what better way to do this but to bring you an easily affordable fun night with live music that's really funky, upbeat and just fun!
Your £15 not only include your ticket, but also a 2-course bar meal and a glass of wine!What more can you want? Furthermore, if you do not feel like driving home,We offer a special rate, just for music lovers like yourself:£25.00 per person bed and breakfast(based on two people sharing) Now that is definitely worth thinking about, so come along to our party night with a difference!Boogalusa will play at the Inn on Dec, 12th @ 9pm

Based in Dundee, Boogalusa are a six-piece band playing their own original music based on rootsy cajun/zydeco swampland swing. With the emphasis on uptempo, and real fun,

get-up-and-dance. They've delighted audiences the length and breath of Britain, Ireland as well as in Europe.

Hold on to your hats, there is some storm outside

What a miserable day! Not only is it absolutely stormy outside, but it also started to rain.

I had to hold on to my jacket for dear life on my way from the car to the Inn this morning.

This is definately not the kind of weather to be outside.

Our postie looked all over the place when he came to drop off our mail. Poor guy! For once it is not so bad to have a job behind the desk, away from the elements that torment the country at the moment.

The best way however to enjoy weather like this is curled-up on the sofa or next to the fire with a nice cup of hot chocolate (or something stronger if you prefer)! Mmhh...

HMS Daring - What a ship

We were invited to see over the amazing Battle Ship last Friday by my God son, who is a Lieutenant Commander on board. I have been over one of the Royal Naval nuclear Subs a few years back that just blew my mind but this was something else.

I must be getting old as the crew were all so young! We toured from opps room to bridge, canteen to laundry. They get some incredibly small allocation per crew member to feed them off but the food looked really good.

The feeling when you go over a ship like this is almost describable. It has a quite self confidence that seeps out of each crew member, but it's also very threatening somehow (naive of me really). You see all these old movies about the Naval battle ships well I can assure you life has moved on. It so modern!

If you get a chance to see this ship you really should go and see it. From all of us at Lathones, Thanks for a great day and Bon Voyage, Chris & the whole Crew. Keep safe. You all make us proud to be British.

Great atmosphere inside - wet and cold outside

Another day of rain, even though it started out so well this morning...blue skies and sunshine!

But even though it is cold and wet out there, we are in for a great evening tonight and not any amount of rain can dampen our spirits as Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett wiil be playing another gig.
They already played here last night and from what I have heard it was absolutely great.
And it should be the same, if not even better this night!

There are still a few tickets left, so come along and enjoy the great atmosphere!

Great day for Ducks !! Cats and Dogs or maybe Rats

Well I don't know about you but I swam to work today! towing my car.
The Boss (my wife) walked the dogs! they would have walked themselves if it had been left to me. She came in looking like a drowned Rat (talking of the rats which we weren't, we have Tokyo Rosenthal from the USA tonight) if you fancy a swim I can highly recomend him. The Ducks are the only happy thing I have seen. You pass people sitting looking glum --- Roll on Christmas and Spring ! Maybe what we really need is a bit of cold weather and some Snow, I hear its snowing in Boston just now so its not so far away.