If you choose to be serviced accommodation:

This service can be provided daily, or on days determined by yourselves.

The  cottage/house will be cleaned from top to bottom; beds made; your bits tidied; and all rooms presented as though you had just arrived for your holiday. 

For catered accommodation:

This service can be provided daily, or on days determined by yourselves.

All meals will be provided: breakfast, morning coffee and biscuits; lunch (picnic or home); afternoon tea and cake; high tea; dinner.

Examples of catered accommodation:

All meat is from our fantastic local butcher; eggs are our own; vegetables come from the garden or local greengrocer; some bread is homemade; some jams and preserves are homemade.

Breakfast Examples:

Design your own hot breakfast choosing from:
Egg, bacon, sausage, tomato (tinned/fresh), baked beans, mushroom, black pudding

Followed up with:
Toast, butter, jam, marmalade

Or go Continental:
French/homemade bread/croissant, cheese, ham, cured meats, yoghurt, fruit, cereal

Plentiful fruit juice, tea and coffee

Morning Coffee/Biscuits Example (served 11am)

Served beside the river; in the conservatory or the lounge or the kitchen….

Pot of tea or fresh coffee (or squash/juice/milk)
Shortbread; biscotti; Danish pastry; sausage roll; cream cheese turnover


Lunch Examples (served 12.45pm)

Chicken Caesar Salad – warm chicken, anchovies, croutons, kos lettuc, parmesan and Caesar dressing
Lanson sausages with buttery mash and onion gravy
Fish pie – salmon, prawns, scallop, cod in creamy white wine sauce with puff pastry lid
Leek risotto, crumbled Dolcelatte, toasted pine nuts

Or the full blown Newmoor Picnic (out with you, or somewhere in the grounds)

Afternoon Tea Examples (served 3pm)
Served beside the river; in the conservatory or the lounge or the kitchen….

Pot of tea or fresh coffee (or squash/juice/milk)
Baked lemon cheesecake; berry muffin; Victoria sponge; chocolate eclairs

High Tea Example (served 5.00pm)
Served beside the river; in the conservatory or the lounge or the kitchen….

Pot of tea or fresh coffee (or squash/juice/milk)
Assortment of fresh sandwiches and savoury bites; scones with jam & clotted cream and cakes

Dinner Examples: Two of three courses (served after 7pm before 9pm)

One
Avocado, Mozzarella and tomato salad; Baked salmon creams with lemon dressed salad leaves; fennel and almond soup, Portabello mushrooms stuffed with mascarpone, stilton & basil

Two
Pot roast beef with red wine, mushrooms and bacon; pan roasted skate with wild mushrooms; crispy pork belly with polenta and salsa verde’; chargrilled steak burger with Roquefort baked salmon; Lamb with Moroccan couscous

Three
Baked lemon tart with raspberry coulis; apple crumble and custard; strawberry pavlova; chocolate mousse

PS there are posh descriptions for what is offered…. but here we provide local, fresh, wonderfully cooked, tasty food.

Any night can be “Posh Night” – your choice during your stay when the boat is really pushed out with steak, oyster, paella, “Heston type”, or your very favourite evening/lunchtime meal: all included in the fully catered option (sometimes subject to a surcharge as …… expensive = sublime …. Talk to us.)

We are not licenced but are very happy to serve your own beers, wines and spirits