We picked the 'loft' room from the pictures we'd seen online. Its surprisingly spacious and boasts a great little en-suite with fantastic shower. It was quite nippy outside, but always warm in our room, especially the en-suite which had a towel rail radiator pumping out heat 24/7. I also liked the electric shutters on the velux windows, they turned the room totally dark.

The food was of good quality, with obvious pride taken in preparation. The choice was excellent.

The lady remembered certain details of what we liked individually or needed, making me certain she actually listened and was hot on customer service, something few small business owners believe in nowadays.

Nice to know the owners were on hand if they were needed, but not too obtrusive.

Everyday the cleaning up fairy paid our room a visit. Nice to come back to a clean room, no 'do not disturb' sign available though, so cleaning seemed to be compulsary lol

I drink a lot of cold drinks, so the cold bottled water in the fridge outside our room door was a nice touch.

The place itself has a couple of comfortable seating places, so your not confined to your room if you want to just sit and read or what the birds in the garden etc.

We got our room on a buy two nights, get one free deal, which made it very reasonable cost wise. We reconed we got a good £20-£25 worth of breakfast per day between us (if we had got the same eating out).

If I had to make suggestions on how the owners could improve, it would be these small points; 1, free wifi... glad it was free, would of hated to pay for it, they need to look into changing the slow hughes satellite internet (its ok for checking email, but browsing can be a nightmare and if you need to download an update for your laptop, forget it! and it must be costing them a fortune, its one of the most expensive sat internet out there.) 2, upgrade the tv's... the one in our room was a tiny 15 inch lcd with built in dvd and a seperate dvb-t freeview box - the screen had been damaged previously and had a visible mark when the set was on and the freeview box was an early type that didnt put the channels in order and was difficult to turn over. A trip to an electrical retailer with a few hundred quid would of get a larger modern set with built in freeview, an impressive tv set to match the otherwise beautiful room. 3, matress not the best, starting to creek and springs twanging, not the most comfortable... maybe time for new ones soon?? As I said, small points, but would make all the difference to putting the cherry back on the top of an otherwise lovely b&b.