2012 at The Old Bakery in numbers and other such trivia

Our first full year of trading at The Old Bakery and so we've got something to compare ourselves against in years to come here's what has happened during 2012 in numbers and trivia.

• 105 nights of B&B stays
• August was our busiest month with 23 nights of B&B stays
• No stays in January and February (when we were open) and in October (when we were shut for our building work)
• 114 nights of stays in The Bakehouse as a holiday cottage and 77 nights for the two members of the cast of the Thursford Christmas Show.
• 222 breakfasts served
• Fresh fruit salad followed by The Full Norfolk is the most popular breakfast choice
• Least popular is Brioche French Toast with seasonal fruit (and will be changed for something else in 2013)
• Mike made 30 trips to Thursford and back transporting guests to the Christmas Show before he finally got to see the show himself.
• Our most popular pudding is crumble - evenly balanced between apple and plum
• 18 reviews posted on Trip Advisor (to add to the one review last year) and they all rate us as excellent!
• 4 couples have been back more than once and two more are already booked for the next Thursford season
• Over 150 jars of jam, marmalade, chutney and mincemeat made this year.
• Orange marmalade is the most popular purchase by our guests
• Our eldest guest was 85 and the youngest just 7 weeks old
• More guests have come from Essex than anywhere else
• The oddest coincidence was when a couple from Essex stayed and then the next couple who stayed turned out to be their best friends  (neither couple knew that the others had booked with us). They only found that out when the second couple signed the visitor book and saw the names of their friends immediately preceding theirs.
•  Following our most recent building works we now have guest accommodation for 8 people, 5 toilets, 4 showers and 6 TVs (4 for guests)
• To make life easier we have 6 super king duvet covers, 3 king size duvet covers, 8 single duvet covers, lots and lots of sheets and pillow cases and more than 40 towels - and that is just for the guests!
• The most useful cleaning products we use are Limelight for shiny taps and shower screens and Vanish to get rid of stains - most memorably a table cloth covered in blueberry compote after two young boys came to breakfast, which was immediately restored to pristine whiteness.
• And our biggest challenge for 2013 is to do it all again, with even more guests and deliver an even better experience for everyone that stays.