Today my friend and I, and our 6 home educated children, were chatting to one of your co-workers in The Thrift Shop. He was telling us about the riding for the disabled programme, showing us pictures and explaining what goes on in the programme. The children, who had just spent a happy 45 minutes visiting […]
Archives for June 2011
Bellever, Castle Drogo & Haytor
last year we did a great walk from Bellever, up on to the moor, past the Snaily House, where 3 sisters allegedly lived, never went to town and only ate snails and down to the river again through a very scratchy gorse patch. I got very burned but it was a lovely walk. This year […]
Fingle Bridge & walking above Okehampton
On our first day away, once we were properly settled in, had some shopping and had played lots with the farm dogs, we took a walk above Okehampton; not a long walk, mainly due to a threatening looking rain cloud, but a pleasant one. It’s a path from just above the station, from the youth […]
Kestor Bliss
Kestor is our place. it’s the place Max took me on our first Dartmoor walk together, the place we got lost in fog together, the place we have walked out children at all the ages they have been. It’s his second ‘home’ tor, nestling above Chagford and Thorn where his Gran lived and where he […]
Little Bit of Luck. Thank You @AppOnline
If you could see the smile on my face now, you wouldn’t believe that a few days ago I was face down on the sofa, sobbing that surely it was time for the universe to give me a break and just stop sending more and more impossible things for us to deal with. Not that […]
Dartmoor Days Out : Lustleigh Cleave
This year we tried a new walk, straying over to a side of Dartmoor we don’t know so well. The day started fairly hysterically, as we (I say we, I do of course mean ‘him who does the driving’) decided to take a road marked as a track between North Bovey and a place I […]
Running and Racing
I haven’t said a great deal about it, but I started running a couple of months ago. It was a little mortifying at first, as I’m a good old weight & very unfit and lumbering around in a red faced, boob bumping manner was not entirely something to brag about. To be honest, I really […]
