Home Run?

Yesterday I bought eight slabs of home-made tiffin tea cake for £5 from the local Bring & Buy sale - it was all they had left.

I've packed it in cling film and put it in the freezer. Tomorrow I will buy some 'cookie jars' - if that's what you have to call glass containers for biscuits these days - and display my teacake in our Hexworthy and Dartmeet Rooms. I hope people don't eat it too fast, or that could get expensive.

I've done this because the B&B at the top of TripAdvisor's Leader Board of Dartmoor National Park's 183 B&Bs features a lovely  close-up pic of a jar of bits of teacake, with a brown hand-written label attached on a ribbon, saying 'home-made chocolate biscuits'.  And all its reviews refer to these delicious titbits. So I am going to copy them (only mine appears to be a bit on the soggy side).  Otherwise on the face of it, there doesn't appear to be anything particularly special or outstanding about Dartmoor's Number 1.

So my suspicion is that its owners are utterly delightful, and that they must offer an immaculate service, with delicious breakfasts with home made compotes changed every day.  And these nice owners, just like me, have presumably got wise as to how TripAdvisor works, and are using it to promote themselves for free. Good on them!  

Meanwhile Wydemeet languishes way down in the Number 4 slot. 

If you had told me a year ago that we would reach Number 4 in just twelve months I would never have believed you.  But now I know how TripAdvisor's system works - ie the computer checks out who's received the largest number of 5-blob reviews most recently - I am beginning to dream of the unimaginable possibility that Wydemeet might hit the Number 1 slot shortly!!!!!!!!

Wouldn't that just be completely amazing?! 

So huge, huge, huge and enormous thanks to all of you who have helped us get this far.  I am SO grateful!  Your reviews really, really mean the world to me! I still can't quite believe the wonderful lovely gorgeous things you say.

Well.  So wedding bells aren't looking in the least bit imminent.  Perhaps 'TripAdvisor's Number One' might prove a fitting end to 'Suviving Solo' Volume 1?

Or perhaps I am just counting my chickens...