The house itself was lovely but we we're quite disappointed by the lack of communication - with a suprise visit from John & a friend collecting an oven and again before departure where someone turned up to mow the lawns without us being informed resulting in us having to take our cars out of the driveway right on when we we're trying to pack up our cars to leave. These things wouldn't have been a problem if we had been consulted first. As it was we had people in our group getting undressed by a window when they arrived and felt it was a bit of an invasion of our privacy. The house was nice and spacious but lacked in homelyness with no tea towels, standard 6 cups, plates etc, 1 towel per person, no heaters in rooms, no washing powder etc . We really enjoyed the outdoor patio area and overall we're mostly only unimpressed with the communication from John surrounding these suprise visits at inconvenient times for our group.