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Potatoes
Every window and door in the house is open as I type this. Is it hot with you? I got very red in the face digging up the last of my new potatoes at the allotment. There were rumours of … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged allotment, blight, devon, district nurse, end-of-term present, grow your own, heat wave, new potatoes, NHS, school, sports day, summer fayre, teacher, vegetables
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Good Farmers
Here’s the view from our camping pod, early on Sunday morning, nipping out to the loo. It was wonderful to be somewhere different and look out on rolling hills. It’s a fabulous farm, not far from us, where the sense … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged camping, children, Chris Stringer, close contact, Covid, dairy farms, deforestation, degradation, devon, environment, erosion, family farms, farming, feedlots, food, Homo Britannicus, interglacial, isolation, kitchen, local economy, monocultures, parenting, pen feeding, pesticides, provenance, regenerative farming, slash and burn, small farms, soil health
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At long last…
I hope you enjoyed my delvings into the folklore behind my children’s novel, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle over the last few weeks. In the mean time, life has been marching on… the swifts arrived and with them, finally, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Avery Buckle, countryside, devon, father's day, four-leaf clover, grasses, Hannah Foley, june, meadow, orchard, orchid, ox-eye daisies, swifts, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, toblerone, yorkshire
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Castles
I read Kathleen Jamie’s book of essays, Surfacing, over January. As you would expect from Jamie, it’s a beautiful selection. She explores the life transitions going on in her own family against the background of an archaeological dig in Alaska, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside
Tagged Alaska, alcohol, Angle Saxons, archaeology, books, Bury, Cadbury, Christian Missionaries, Cornwall, Cranbrook, Dartmoor, devon, Dumnonii, essays, farmers, Fingle Woods, ghosts, guerilla war fare, hill fort, Iron Age, Kathleen Jamie, lifestyle, multivallate, neolithic, non-fiction, Old Clam Bridge, Orkney, romans, scotland, seasonal, snowdrops, South West, surfacing, sustainable, Tamar, Thorverton, traditional, Vikings, way of life, Welsh Marches, Westray, Wooston Castle
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Wet towels
I left the towels on the line for three days before I gave in and brought them in to dry indoors. The days have been full of fog and mist down here in the South West. Yesterday we drove out … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged christmas, Christmas tree, combe, countryside, COVID-19, December, devon, England, family, fog, mist, oak tree, ridgeway, southwest, swing, towels, tree, tyre swing, walk, wood
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Tram-tastic
With all that’s been going on with Covid, instead of our planned trip to North Wales the week before last, we decided to stay at home and do local day trips. One of these was a trip to Seaton. Seaton … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged alan gardner, Blackpool, bookshop, Britain, claude lane, coastal town, colyford, colyton, countryside, day trip, devon, east devon, eastbourne, holiday, lancaster electrical company, Owl and Pyramid, rhyl, roman port, saxon town, seaton, Seaton tramway, seaton wetlands, southwest, trams, UK
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Bennett’s Cross
On Dartmoor there is a crooked stone cross beside the road between Moretonhampstead and Postbridge. Folklore has it that the cross was erected as a boundary marker by a tin miner named William Bennett in the 16th century. Looking out across … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged "This too shall pass", 16th century, Birch Tor, common lizard, Dartmoor, devon, dragonflies, family, fishing net, folklore, granite, history, minnows, Moretonhampstead, open cast mining, paddling, perspective, picnic, Postbridge, Redwater Brook, ruins, southwest, spoil heaps, stannery, stream, tin mining, tinner, tomatoes, Vitifier Tin Mine, walk, William Bennett
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