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 has, until recently, housed a grand piano: it is being
restored in 2006, 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 in hotel and catering
management from the Scottish Hotel School 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). Two of these, although well-due for
updating, remain in print (on food preparation and cooking, and food and
drink service), published by Thomson International. 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
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It is always such a treat for us to be there with you and to roam
around beautiful mid-Wales.
Alan and Gwenda, Colwyn
Bay, April 2007
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.
Rosemary and John, London, March 2006
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. Since
this photo (of the bathroom to room 6) was taken, the taps on the
bath have been replaced with a hand-held shower/mixer, the curtains
by vertical blinds, and the carpet renewed.
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