Composers Blog

May came and went in a blur.  It really has been a blur of activity, with 2 Bank Holiday weekends and ‘Composers’ at full stretch, with guests coming and going throughout the month.  There are other words to describe May, but The Composer refuses to spoil anyone’s holiday by discussing politics! So this blog is…

The three S’s.  Super, Sad and Stupid!  All in one month.  We have enjoyed the ‘super’ thanks to the best  weather, here in Northumberland and throughout the UK, over the past month and especially at the  Easter weekend.  Guests really have entered into the spirit of the season with shorts and T-shirts in abundance!  That…

It’s the month for giving orders!  So, away with winter, in with spring.  Goodbye to dark nights, hello to BST.  Au revoir to 2018 and Bonjour to 2019.  And a very warm welcome to the 13th year of Composers at Woodlands and yet another year gilded with 5 stars and Gold Awards for hospitality. Wow!…

This time last year The Composer was knee deep in snow. This year he’s knee deep in sunshine!  The Beast from the East has not returned and would not be welcomed if it did!  Curiously, the effect of those dreadful days was to see many motorists stranded in a place they often drove past, but…

The Composer is on a role! The New Year arrived with a flourish and 2018 is a distant, albeit very happy, memory.  So now, Blog reader, where are you on a scale of 1 to 10??   1 is dreadful and 10 is brilliant.  How do you rate YOUR January. The Composer is around 11 and…

So, as we arrive at the end of another year we are already knee deep into 2019 ‘thinking’.  No sooner do we start to plan our time off at Christmas than The Composer is busy with the 2019 calendar of events and promotions at ‘Composers’.  The first promotion is already up and running…….and that’s the…

The Composer is sitting quietly in the office – November is slowly sinking into the past and The Composer has survived BLACK FRIDAY without venturing to spend money on the ‘essentials’ which every company in the world felt sure he needed! The one fly in the ointment for The Composer is the (too soon!) November…

The Composer is quite glad October is ended!  It’s been a hectic month with guests taking advantage of last minute breaks and the quieter autumnal weeks of golden sunrises and stunning sunsets.  The school calendar is more confusing than ever, creating a plethora of half term breaks that span the entire month.  It’s quite stressful…

Those are the opening lines of the 1962 song originally written for Bobby Vee by Carole King. And if they had added a quick by-line including ‘storm Ali’ they would have got September 2018 spot on! What a month it has been! It started with such promise and Berwick never looked better as the Food…

Simply ‘the best’.  Everybody says it about SOMETHING. Supermarkets, stores and shops have top of the range brands using superlatives to set them apart from the rest – being either ‘super select’, ‘best choice’, ‘finest’, ‘superior’ or ‘the best’. In commerce and industry we have’star ratings’, loved by trip sites, advisor sites and all manner…