TML Travel Group - The Moneypenny Files

Prelude to Week Commencing 25 May 2026 “The Quiet Before the Turning Point” SUNDAY — The Founder Returns North HQ is dark today, as it should be on a Bank Holiday weekend. Even the inbox seems to be observing the silence. I am off enjoying the long weekend Moneypenny‑style — which is to say: tea, sunshine, a book I will almost certainly not finish, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing the office will reopen on Tuesday with everything exactly where I left it. David, meanwhile, has returned from his castle adventures in Sussex and Kent , sun‑kissed and slightly exhausted after a day at Hever Castle in 31°C heat on Saturday. A glorious place, he reports — though even the Tudor gardens struggled to compete with the unstoppable energy of Oscar, Carrie’s two‑and‑a‑half‑year‑old, who treated the grounds as his personal kingdom. Carrie — whom David first met in 2007 when she was Deputy Editor of Group Travel Organiser Magazine in Hastings — has been a constant thread in his life ever since...

MONDAY - 18th May 2026 Filed from TML HQ, where the kettle and I remain in charge until Thursday Monday arrived pretty much exactly as Friday had left it —   with Dunkeld House still behaving like a force of nature. By the time the campaign finally closed on Saturday afternoon, the counter stopped at 187 enquiries .   One hundred and eighty‑seven.   Even the inbox took a moment to steady itself. So this morning began with the usual post‑campaign triage:   brochure requests stacked like cairns,   email threads quietly multiplying,   and the printer making the sort of noises that suggest it may soon demand a spa break of its own. We’ve now begun sending out every brochure request, along with a fresh newsletter promoting both the Dunkeld House Taster Weekend and our newly unveiled Fly‑In Scottish Escapes — which, if you ask me, is the sort of product that deserves its own velvet‑curtain reveal. Meanwhile, David is away on busine...