Southbourne bed and breakfast at Newpoint Hotel, 25 Pinecliffe Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth, UK, BH6 3PY

Windfall apples could be good for making cider!

Everybody I know is offering me home grown produce. What is it about me? Do I look emaciated and underfed? Everything from apples through to courgettes and the occasional marrow has been kindly offered and it seems so rude to refuse!

Of course, I  and my husband are both vegetarians (although I provide a scrumptious full English breakfast at my B & B) which could explain some of their eagerness.

So I got to thinking how I can turn this problem into an opportunity and came up with wine-making! This seemed a really exciting prospect and I had visions of everything from apple cider through to elderberry wine produced  by the bucketful.

Then the six o’clock News came on the television with loads of scary stories about the credit crunch and how we are heading for a horribly deep recession. Quite honestly, I was practically suicidal after they’d finished presenting their doom and gloom scenarios.

Gorse and moorland flowers! Gorse flower wine anybody?

So I decided to do a bit of research on the web to find out what local wines were made  in the Bournemouth and Dorset area and discovered that wine can be made from gorse flowers. Well I love the sight of gorse flowers. They look so beautiful like a rich golden yellow carpet in local beauty spots like Hengistbury Head but picking the flowers might take rather a long time and gorse can be very prickly.

Of course, once the wine is made, it could be so intoxicating that everybody would completely forget about the credit crunch - which might be a very good idea.

However, it was then that I spotted a flaw in all these exciting thoughts and plans. Not only are my husband and I vegetarian but we are also virtually teetotal.

It isn’t that we are particularly against alcohol, although it does seem to cause a lot of problems with people’s health and lives, but we don’t really enjoy drinking wine, spirits and alcohol in general. (We don’t even have an alcohol license at Newpoint Hotel.) So it seems likely that a surplus of home garden produce would simply be exchanged for a surplus of home brewed alcoholic beverages. Suddenly, the wine making idea seemed far less appealing.

However, I’ve often noticed that I seem to cheer myself up when I’m cheering up other people so, never daunted, I came up with an idea to beat huge buckets of depression created by the credit crunch which doesn’t involve getting blotto and destroying our lives.

Southbourne Overcliff at the end of the road from Newpoint Hotel B & B

Starting November, Newpoint Hotel will be launching the juiciest ever cheap discount hotel deals and offers for this credit crunch Winter and that’s a promise!

If you are looking for a job in Bournemouth and need accomodation for a few nights, my hotel deals will be the most competitive ever!

If  you are searching for a cheap hotel for a weekend break, my hotel offers will put a smile on your face!

If you are looking for a discount hotel or a budget hotel with really cheap hotel rooms, Newpoint Hotel bed and breakfast is where you should be.

All this and the full English or vegetarian breakfasts will still be scrumptious and the hotel room accommodation will still be as clean and comfortable as ever.

Just give me a call on (01202) 425047. Sometimes I’m not able to take your call immediately so leave a message and I will get right back to you. Alternatively, email me through Newpoint Hotel bed and breakfast contact form and I will email or telephone you back, as you wish.

Ha! I feel better already!

I look forward to hearing from you

Bye for now

Christine

Christine Watson - Newpoint Hotel bed and breakfast (B & B)