What a way to spend your birthday, I’ve been in the office for 10 minutes and already everyone is wishing me a happy birthday and reminding me how old I am…….I would have loved to take today off and spend the day relaxing and maybe go out for a couple drinks with some friends or spend the day with my eight year old son…….back to reality.

Our Sales Manager decided it would be a good idea for me to write the blog on my birthday, not sure what the day will hold but here goes.

For the first time for what seems like an age there are under 200 guests for breakfast and everyone seems quite relaxed, our Restaurant Manager has just returned from a two week break and looks really relaxed so today will be a good day for us to set the new six month strategy for the restaurant in conjunction with our new Head Chef, I really have high hopes for these two departments in the coming weeks and months.

More “happy birthday” messages coming through from friends and colleagues all over the country and the world!!!! Check over the weekend’s business and it appears that we have been busier than we expected. We now need to work out what happened and what we can do to manage this better next time.

The day continues with a meeting with our Maintenance Manager to discuss the draining of our indoor pool and retiling and painting, this is a huge task but is underway with the minimum amount of fuss.

A quick stop for a bite of lunch and a cup of tea and then a quick check around the hotel to see how things are running and were seem to be quite quiet today, it is really amazing how there can be 150 people staying in hotel yet it still seems really quiet.

I spend a steady afternoon at my desk dealing with some general correspondence and then I’m off to a School Governors meeting. I return to the hotel at about 8:30pm and am planning to go out for a quiet drink with some of my Assistant Manager only to find that they have arrange a surprise meal with other friends and hotel staff, when at times you question why you do the job that you do it really is the people you work with that makes it all worthwhile.