Blog entries tagged news

Ralph the bald penguin gets a wetsuit

John Birch — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:50:17 +0100

Ralph the bald penguin gets a wetsuit

A bald penguin has been given a specially-designed wetsuit to help protect him from the risk of sunburn.

Penguins moult every year, which usually takes between four to six weeks to complete. However, Ralph, a nine year old Humboldt penguin, lost all of his feathers in one day, exposing his pale pink skin to the sun. The wRead More...

Facebook Search Improved for Everyone

John Birch — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:49:47 +0100

Facebook Search Improved for Everyone From the Facebook blog

Last month, we began testing new versions of Search with a small group of people on Facebook. Based on the success of those tests, we're rolling out a new version of Search to everyone on the site beginning today.
You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you're a fan. If peoplRead More...

Facebook buys FriendFeed

John Birch — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:24:58 +0100

The social networking giant has taken major steps into the increasingly pivotal realtime search market this week by launching a completely overhauled search engine and sealing the $50m acquisition of FriendFeed.

"You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you're a Read More...

Tweetboard

John Birch — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:50:09 +0100

Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website.

Test out our new TWEETBOARD It's on the left hand side of the page

Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off tRead More...

Bids reach $277,000 on auction for bed with free house

John Birch — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:18:01 +0100

With less than nine hours to go the top bid on a queen sized bed with a free grand old home and guesthouse attached in Westport has reached $277,000.

A Westport couple are selling the six-bedroom historical home on TradeMe - under the beds category - with a reserve of $1.

Owners Wayne Saggers and Kathy Wahrlich said they were dead serious about selling their Derby Street home.

The house, known as the Stone House, has a QV of $300,000 and is listed with a real estate agRead More...

York guesthouse owner celebrates 100th birthday

John Birch — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:00:19 +0100

Owner celebrates 100th birthday

Irene Bennett has been running The Bennett's Guest House in York Beach since 1960, and sees no reason to retire now that she's 100.

"It hasn't come to me," she said during an interview last week at her home. "When retirement comes, I know what I want to do."

That is to stay in a place much like the one she's been running for 49 years, in which she has a room and can get meals.

White House to enter Bed and Breakfast market

John Birch — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:32:32 +0100

Borrowing a page from Arizona’s state-budget playbook, the Obama administration has announced it will rent out rooms in the White House to raise money to offset the rising federal deficit.

Recently, Arizona announced plans to sell up to 50 state-owned government building and then lease them back over a period of decades before eventually repurchasing them. In essence, the plan calls for Arizona to mortgage the buildings that house its state government.

Since many find the Read More...

The making of a Bed and Breakfast

John Birch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:30:39 +0100

http://makingbandb.blogspot.com/

A nice little blog about the making of a B and B

Follow along as we turn our new/old house into a home for our family and a bed and breakfast!
I'll post Before, During and After pictures. I'll tell you, as soon as we find out, the history of the house. I'll let you in on what our process will be when we will figure out what to name the B&B and the first three suites that will be offered to our guests.

This will NORead More...

Is turning your home into a B&B a good move?

John Birch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:57:35 +0100

In today's economy, people are looking for easy ways to make some money. Many homeowners are even thinking about opening a bed and breakfast.

But is that a smart move? Maybe. But before re-working your home, you need to do your homework.

Ten years ago, Margaret Moore and her husband converted their home into a bed and breakfast.

"There are times when nobody's here and times when a lot of people are here," said Moore.

It's one of 40 homes near NotreRead More...

Richard Gere opens up bed and breakfast

John Birch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:44:51 +0100

You can't make this stuff up: So you arrive at the bed & breakfast you booked in Bedford, New York, and something's a little strange: "Honey," you say to your spouse, "doesn't the guy who just signed us in look a lot like Richard Gere?" No mistake: Gere and his wife Carey Lowell have no-kidding opened a B&B in a converted old farmhouse and barn. Bedford is maybe 75 km north of New York City. W mag had pictures and an interview. "We're total neophytes,"Gere said. Martha Stewart and RalRead More...

Talk Accommodation

John Birch — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:54:39 +0100

Talk Accommodation makes it easy to advertise your property and connect with other Accommodation Owners. It has been developed as an interactive advertising and social networking website by John and Clare who own and run a bed and breakfast themselves.
We only list IRead More...