About your hosts
Tom Lines has born and brought up in Beckenham, Kent. He
graduated in Bristol with a BEd and for several years taught
mathematics there and in various London schools. In his spare time,
he sang with the Philharmonia chorus at many concerts in Britain and
Europe. This encouraged him to train as a singer at the Royal
Academy of Music for four years from 1979. Piano was his second
principal subject, which explains why our restaurant once housed a
grand piano: now restored and in storage, prior to its move to our
cottage near Llanerfyl (occasional refuge and intended retirement
home). The career openings for a baritone proving slow, Tom joined
the Lord Chancellor’s department as a computer programmer, and from
there taught programming and systems analysis for four years, for a
private training company, also in London.
Roy Hayter was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe (the African connection soon becomes evident to guests, from the display of art in the restaurant and some of the bedrooms). After graduating with a BA in hotel and catering management from the Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow in 1972, he remained in the UK initially to get experience, and then permanently as the situation in Zimbabwe deteriorated. A varied career mostly in London, and including three years as a chef manager for a merchant bank in the City, led to over 20 years producing training material for the hospitality industry and writing text books, mostly for NVQ trainees, and published by Heinemann, Macmillan Education, Thomson Learning and the Hotel and Catering Industry Training Board. Roy continues to write on health and safety and food safety for the specialist management information publishers, Croners, and contributes a regular column sourced from media reports on the industry, for the quarterly Hospitality Review published by Threshold Press of Newbury.
Almost all the improvements to Lloyds we have
made ourselves. Tom does the plumbing, woodwork and tiling; Roy the
electrical work (he wired his first house, on a farm in Zimbabwe, in
his teens), wall papering and carpet fitting. Tom chooses the colour
schemes, we both share the painting. The stylish fittings in Room 7.
It is always such a treat for us to be there with you and to roam around beautiful mid-Wales.
It was a delight to see you both in such a charming place. All the glowing reports we had from Lynn, Ann and Elizabeth were absolutely true.
The bedroom of room 6; all our double rooms have a king size bed.
