The cabins were comfortable and unpretentious, but serviced as thoroughly as any hotel.
In Edwardian times, Machrihanish would have been bustling with holidaymakers escaping industrial Glasgow in summer, arriving at nearby Campbeltown on one of the many steamers that serviced the area.
My Panerai watch, also acquired before the turn of the century, has been worn every day since, except for two brief periods when I've sent it to be serviced.
Alex Minchin, founder of Oxford-based digital marketing agency Zest Digital, recently moved his team from a rural barn – complete with birds nesting in the brickwork – to serviced offices in the city centre.
Early on, there were trips to her house, introductions to family and friends, the ritual of the Thursday curry in the staff canteen, the joy in showing me contact strips fresh from the darkroom, the visit together to a man near the British Library who serviced cameras, a trip to Glastonbury to take photos of rock stars.
Nowadays, Hemingway Design has just finished designing 800 homes in Gateshead where we have restricted cars to one per household, introduced a bike club and made sure the estate is serviced by an excellent public transport system.
Much of the shoot's revenue went into the Dales economy: Mawle bought his food at the local shop, serviced his farm vehicles locally and employed local people: the 30 beaters required to drive the birds towards the guns were paid £50 a day.
When you take your car to be serviced or repaired, you expect the mechanic to replace any worn or damaged parts with new ones.
As a result, "soaplands" (bathhouses where men are serviced by women) and "delivery health" (women dispatched to homes or hotels) are legitimate businesses.Mr West presents a judiciary that is sometimes out of step with the "sense of society" on which it regularly bases its rulings.
BMW uses sensor-data to tell its customers when their cars need to be serviced, for example.
"There is a limit to the number of roads, schools, clinics and water points that can be built and serviced effectively in any one year," it pointed out.In this section Haughty indifference, or masterly inactivity?
