Ah, hit them where it hurts most - cross your fingers and send them a letter saying something like this:
"I'm writing to let you know that I was intending to stop for dinner/luncheon, plus a few drinks/bottles of wine, on XXXday as I had my family and several friends on board. "I have to say that we were all very peckish at the time because we were running a little behind our schedule and had not stopped for our usual morning coffee and cake; rather unfortunately for us, once we had arrived at 'The Old Mill' we saw that your moorings are now all marked up as 'Private' - which meant that we had to continue on until we found another place for refreshments. "It was a great disappointment to us, partly because we were so hungry and partly because we had all been looking forward to enjoying a good meal with you - the more so as several acquaintances of ours have commended your food to us of late." Yours sincerely ... etc. At worst you lose the cost of a stamp, at best you get a free mooring, and/or discount, next time you are passing and, if they think they are losing their 'passing trade' to the pub up the cut, maybe the signs will come down again <g> :-))>> Trevor - trying it on :) ....................................................... [email protected] wrote: > Passed Tiami a few days back, & indeed will re-pass later today. I > notice ''The Old Mill'' next door has gone all elitist à la 3 > Horseshoes & erected notices on all the mooring rings ''Private > moorings'' .......disgraceful. > It was bad enough when a firm used to take all the moorings over to > have 'group hugs' or whatever----now they don't want anyone to > patronise the place---What's up with these > people? > Barry > Nb shakeshisheadindespair [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
