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All bags are packed,tickets safely stowed and I.m ready for tomorrow's journey. I leave my house at 8:00 for the train station and arrive at Barnstaple at 4:35 we should be at Jenny's around 5. Well that's the plan I am in the hands of 4 different rail

Hi folks having great fun messig in the garden and fixing stuff

We had a bacon joint in cider last night, I am pleased to say Jenny enjoyed. my recipe she even let me make the sauce. I have been keeping busy messing about in the garden great fun I am not sure how long l can write before this goes belly up so I'll

Just a quick note before this goes belly up. Monday dawned wet but the sun keeps breaking through. We have a few things to do today, taking stuff to the recycling dump, I need to get some cash from the bank, we need some provisions and parts to fix a

I am keeping busy pruning stuff and lopping down some great branches to let more light through, I even became a lumberjack chopping down a mighty sycamore, all three foot of it. I pottered around doing other things and had a great time. I don't know

Jenny made one of her favourite dishes yesterday and very tasty it was. Today we are going to dartmoor, the weather looks set fine and I am looking forward to a grand tour of Baskerville country. Jenny is taking three cameras and a camcorder so we hope

We had a wonderful day out on dartmoor yesterday but it was tiring. A late meal and early to bed was the call for me. The long car ride was not good on my back. Today l am as fit as a butchers dog and ready for the fray. Jenny will no doubt fill you in

Today is the last day here, tomorrow I start the long trip home I hope to make it in under 9 hours but I am dependent on 4 trains and and three changes the last one with only 2 minutes between trains. This means the other 3 have to be right on time. The

Hello. I have returned after 2 glorious weeks with Jenny. Door to door the trip took 10 hours but the train journey was under 8. most of the other was spend when I arrived here sitting in the sun and talking to an old mate. When I finally arrived home I

I have lots of photos to search and sort but I am delayed today by the need to do repairs on my back door. I was hoping to tidy the grass and edges up but the rain has started so that's out. I have sorted some photos of Jenny's garden some of her flowers

Today I have photos of West Appledore to show you.They are similar to Jenny's of course as we were in the same area. It was very pleasant standing on the lifeboat slipway watching the small craft bobbing about on the water. Click Here

A truly wonderful day here with the temps topping 25c (around 80f) in my garden at around 2 and it hasn't cooled down since. I have got a little work done,the back door is repaired, the grass back and front cut,weeds cleared and a load of laundry washed

After a lovely dry spell today is coudy with rain forecast and the wind is rising,up to 30mph expected later. I have my photos and memories of the wonderful trip to see Jenny,here are some snaps of Dartmoor. click here

With time flying by I decided to have a stroll to find some trinkets to take home.There was also some Armada cannons I was keen to see. I did a little shopping and wandered down to the park where the cannons are sited and took a couple of snaps. I

Coming to the end of my visit we went to Hartland point with it's lighthouse and radar station. The views are spectacular and typical of the Devon coastline. I climbed up one steep path to get a glimpse of the lighthouse and even managed to get a shot of

I could hear the fat lady warming up to sing so time for one last photo trip.Here are the last set of photos from Devon fittingly taken beside the river with a few boats around. The place is called Limer's Lane. You can see why in a couple of the photos

I decided today was the day to catch up on the back garden.The weather was perfect, warm going on hot with a Zephyr wafting gently across my face.That's the wind not the car by the way. The strimmer was my weapon of choice,beside the normal strim I aimed

Today promised to be hot and sticky again and indeed it was. 8:30 With this thought in mind I decided to get an early start and weeded the rose patch out the front which was in dire need of a tidy up. That took me nearly an hour it has grown so much in

Today the temps hit 31c (88f) for a short time in my garden so work was out of the question. I put the parasol and brolly out before the sun came round the back,in fact I had all my meals out there today and really enjoyed the experience. Here is a photo

After another day yesterday in the mid eighties today is a little cooler with temps dropping to the high seventies but the humidity is still high. I took myself off over town for a little early shopping this morning. I left at 7:30 On the bridge I

Another sunny morning here so with the canopy roof job delayed until tomorrow I decided to effect a repair on my ailing back door. the bottom quarter of the door is rotten and coming adrift.With the expenditure of late,the train fair to Jenny's plus fuel

With the help of my son Stephen I managed to get the canopy roof repaired. We had to dodge some very hefty showers but got there in the end.Some of the timber cross braces are rotting but they will do until next spring when I will replace the whole