Edward Miller has been running a successful B&B enterprise in a peaceful part of the Lake District for over 25 years.

Here he tells his story of how it came about and how he learned through trial and error to not only make a decent profit out of it, but to enjoy (nearly) every minute of it.

The book is full of incidents, some beyond belief, others rib-tickling or just plain bizarre. But it is also full of practical advice and tips, all of them summarised at the end of each chapter.

With cartoons by Robin Grenville Evans.

Ed Miller was born in 1933 and after his education at King Edward VII School, Lytham, he joined a Lancashire freelance press agency and remained in full-time journalism for eight years.

Edward Miller and his wife have run a successful B&B enterprise in a peaceful part of the Lake District for over 25 years. He moved there after selling a successful Blackpool business and took early retirement with a view to playing village cricket and doing a lot more shooting and fishing. A serious cycling accident in 1990 threatened to end his active life, but he recovered sufficiently to resume his beloved goose shooting and to continue his B & B business.