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The Motelier – Oct 2010
I am more than a little aware that there has not been much said from this corner of the world for the last – oh, how long?????? Motelling and writing inspiration don’t seem to go. There doesn’t seem to be … Continue reading
The Front-Loading Washing Machine
Here’s how it feels to look fondly into the happily-sloshing contents of the industrial-sized front-loading washing machine, as it slurps away at the dirt and unspeakables ingrained in the motel bedspread from Room 4 ……. and spy to your horror … Continue reading
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Tagged hotel management, motel management, Muckadilla, outback, Queensland
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The Breakfast Debacle
Day 2 of sole charge, and 6.30am finds me in the reception office doing battle with the computer. insert USB hit ‘today’s date’ wait keep waiting Fully engrossed with the unfamiliar concept of waiting (perhaps this is why computers and … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Chicken Little, Fawlty Towers, hotel management, motel management, Muckadilla, outback, Queensland
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The Start-Up Motelier
Here’s what it is like to be a start-up Motelier of 3 days’ duration. You waken at 3.00am when your partner Bas (as in Fawlty) wakens loudly (yes, it is possible, believe me) and proclaims the alarm to be unset … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, hotel management, motel management, Muckadilla, outback, Queensland
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From Backwater to Mainstream
For 21 years, during what is fondly known as Stage 3 of my life, I lived close to the teeming backwater of Warwick. The backwater part I didn’t realise at the time, because the teeming part was so engrossing and … Continue reading
In at the Deep End – The First Phone Call
Sunday 19th September, Day 1 for J.O.Grieve in her new guise as Aspiring Motelier Extraordinaire at Dalby, the Thriving Hub of the Darling Downs. Sunday – traditionally the quietest day in the motelier’s week – had proved something of a … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, Australia, Best Western, Darling Downs, motel management, Muckadilla, outback, travel and tourism
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In at the Deep End – The Motelier
Today was my first full day of being a motelier, and this is how it went. I was determined not to panic. That was my waking thought, and the thought I kept close to my heart all morning, as I … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, motel management, Muckadilla, outback, panic, Queensland, stress
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Travelling Light – The Plan
And of course I am realising that my 2 ½ stolid readers, all of them me re-reading what I have written and finding mistakes that have to be corrected, are wondering what the hell a tiny cottage 22km south-west of … Continue reading
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Tagged Banjo Patterson, Clancy of the Overflow, hotel management, motel management, Muckadilla, outback, Queensland
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