Honestly, I know I’m getting boring about this – in one week the voting process will be over. I’m up against massive competition, I know, and I really don’t expect to win, but I’d love to have given it my best shot and so I’m just going to ask these few last times if you’d […]
Archives for 2011
A Tale of Three Blankets
In terms of things, I think it is possible this is my greatest ever creation. It’s the culmination of a years worth of work, a square a week, through one of the toughest years of my life. It has a story, a huge and enormous story, a story no mother would ever want to tell. […]
Lower Hookner Farm – the best holiday cottage in Devon
We went back, in the same week, to the farm we went to last year when we so desperately needed a holiday. There were two reasons, firstly it was beautiful and lovely and welcoming and perfectly situated for us and secondly I knew that if I didn’t go back soon, then the memories of last […]
Brixham and Burgh Island
One day, when we knew the weather was due to be good but all the girls were a little in need of a little quiet time in the car (if you know what I mean) we decided to go to Dartmouth. It was a longish drive, thanks to the innumerable roadworks and I stopped concentrating. […]
To the Lady Volunteer in the Thrift Shop
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 […]
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 […]
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