by Wil Allan | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
We can only have one thought at a time, so make sure it’s a good one. With so much to prioritise, and so much that divides our attention every day, our overworked brains feel like they’re held in a vice – and we’re the ones turning the screw....
by Wil Allan | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last Friday, 1st March, was a national day of unplugging. Well at least it was in the US. In the 1990’s getting unplugged meant rock stars like Eric Clapton moved away from the embellishment of their electrical set-up and returned to...
by Wil Allan | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
What Makes A Boutique Business Retreat? Packing your vision and leaving the rest behind to spend time alone. Here are elements 5 and 6 of what makes a boutique business retreat and this – blog wraps up the last of the fundamental elements that define Being...
by Wil Allan | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
What Makes A Unique Business Retreat? Packing your vision, leaving the rest behind and spending time alone. These are elements 3 and 4 of what makes a unique business retreat. In all, there are 6 fundamental elements that make Graig Ddu – The Cottage...
by Wil Allan | Feb 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
What Makes A Boutique Business Retreat? I believe that houses choose their owners. In 1991 Graig Ddu chose me. You can find that story here: https://tinyurl.com/ydyz5wp3 But back to the present. After leaving an out of character foray into...
by Wil Allan | Jan 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
So what do you do when your creative solutions desert you? Suck it up? Force it out? Tear out your hair? For the last few weeks I’ve been bursting with ideas and creative solutions, on a high and full of energy, but during last weekend I noticed there was...
by Wil Allan | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
When we observe and preserve an alert watchfulness over life, we can see the unfolding and enfolding evolution of everything – constant change. It may seem banal, but this also includes holiday cottages. I moved to Graig Ddu in 1991 – you can read...
by Wil Allan | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Finding Graig Ddu – The Cottage In The Forest It wasn’t so much a case of love at first sight, mostly because I hadn’t lived without electricity before, and the cottage was pink! I wasn’t sure which would be more of a challenge. It was...
by Wil Allan | Jan 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’ll be three years ago this summer that I began restructuring the garden at Graig Ddu. Many of the small shrubs were over 30 years old and reaching the end of their lives, and some were diseased. It was in the ensuing chain-sawing, uprooting and burning...
by Wil Allan | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
4.00pm on 30th December and dusk is settling. I ran to the mountain gate and up to the cairn at the top of Twyn Y Gaer, an iron age hill fort. On the way I nodded hello to the last straggling walkers heading back home before dark. Perfect...
