It is worth going out in the early morning and evening - to see how the landscape changes with the light.
Hilary, Preston
The bed head is against an outside wall, and especially the north, is very cold at night - roll up the extra blankets and line the wall with them to separate your head and shoulders.
Penny, Bath
If you want to see puffins, the best place is the south side of Jenny's Cove before 11am, they push off out to sea in the afternoon.
Richard, Norfolk
The deck chair makes a good clothes dryer for out or indoors, if arranged in an un deckchair like fashion.
Zena, Suffolk
With the cottage having been open for over 3 years now, I thought I'd be struggling to come up with any useful tips to add to some of the preceding ones, but then Tuesday breakfast it came to me. If you're able to find a hacksaw, and see fit to saw 2 legs off the grill pan tray, you might be able to produce toast that looks like toast instead of half baked moon rock.
Darrell, Clevedon
Instructions for cooking toast (in response to previous troubles):
Light grill, place bread on grill pan, under heat. Watch until top half is just beginning to brown, then with right hand (or left if left handed) remove grill pan, then with left hand (or right) turn bread around and replace under heat with left (or right) hand. When browned, remove pan as instructed, turn over to uncooked side and repeat previous instructions.
Thea, Wiltshire
Wedge rock under front door to stop it banging.
Helen
Yes I know the dehumidifier does work and is very useful, but it doesn't keep the windows clear - bring a small chamois leather with you next time (and there will be a next time!). It's easier to look through binoculars or camera with clean windows.
Anon
Coming back wet and exhausted from a trip to the North End, I had an idea (which I haven't dared try yet!). Before you leave on a wet day, put the makings of a meal all ready (soup in saucepan, kettle filled, bread sliced and buttered, whatever you fancy), and lay out a complete change of clothes (socks, underwear, everything) inside the bed, with the electric blanket on! (would this be dangerous). Then when you get back, soaked to the skin, all you have to do is light the gas, put on warm clothes while your food warms up, have your meal and immediately feel better.
Anon
If they have any Lundy eggs in the shop, then buy some! They're the best, yellowest eggs I've ever eaten.
Frances, Clevedon
No need to lock the cottage, but if whilst you're having a quiet day time kip and don't want the day trippers walking in on you thinking you're a public loo - use the key!
Judith, Gloucester
If you want to avoid windburn stay in!
Ian, Essex
Became aware of intermittent squeaking round on Sunday morning. Traced it to the gate outside the front door. Where the metal ring of the catch is fixed to the metal ring in the gate, the wind was causing the two to rub together and squeak. Didn't think to pack WD40, so the solution was to open a tin of tuna, drain off the oil and use that as lubricant.
Ashley, Surrey
Found a brilliant way to increase comfort of reading in bed (besides obligatory glass of wine on bedside table of course). Prop clean, dry washing up bowl on its side, under bed clothes, about three quarters of the way down, this relives pressure of blankets on feet - bliss!
Zoe, Okehampton
The shower curtain: when in the shower it just hangs there, you turn the shower on and face away from the wall - it just hangs there, but as soon as you turn your back on it - slap, it adheres itself to your bum. The only advice here to stop it is to shower with a friend (as per Lundy regulations), and make them stand near the damn thing. I swear it's alive and having a laugh.
Richard, Norfolk
To stop soaking the bathroom floor, push edges of damp shower curtain against the wall to make a seal.
June, Surrey
It is possible to use a BT charge card on the phone. Dial 0800 144144 (it's official from BT), eventually after it doesn't take account number or PIN (but enter anyway), you get a charge card operator, who takes the details and puts you through.
Jo, Enfield
As for the wind in the chimney, which appears to be a common phobia, one certain cure is to spend a winter in the Outer Hebrides, in an old croft house - preferably one with an old fashioned H type TV aerial attached to the chimney stack, after that you will hardly notice this one.
Thea, Wiltshire
If you haven't stayed here before, just read some extracts from this book and you'll find out what north westerlies also mean - the flue!! It clatters, rattles and bangs, making a good night's sleep fair impossible. I have no tips on how to cure it from the inside, only to empty copious amounts of alcohol into your inside and that may just about do it.
Richard, Norfolk
Keep boots and jacket in sitting room rather than hall, as they don't dry.
Helen
The Parasol Mushrooms have come up just in time - they are delicious. Go and pick one from the south west field - over the stile and about halfway to south west point, in among the bracken. They're best just after they've opened. Fry in butter.
Frances, Avon
The chap in the shop told me about why we need to drink bottled water. He said that the nitrate level in the water was slightly higher than usual, but that the EC had lowered the permitted levels, and so the Lundy powers that be are playing it safe by telling everyone to use bottled water.
Kate, North Devon
My week has been taken up with hunting for the Lundy letterboxes. Never would I have thought that rubber stamps in plastic boxes, wrapped up in tatty old plastic carrier bags hidden in the most difficult, dangerous (at times) and beautiful places could consume someone so much.
Rachel, Lincoln
Why be a Friend of Lundy? Because I need to know this place is here and want to do my bit to see that it surivives and prospers.
Gillian, Winchester
During the night the water supply failed. On my return to the village I met the maintenance technician and explained the problem. He informed me that it is a feature of renovating the Old Light compound, put in in 2001. The water shuts off with the electricity at night.
Graeme, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
