Love your hubby's tom and chilli chutney @Hostafan1 .... we've just got the end of a courgette cake left ... I shall have to make another very soon ...
Sorry to butt in y'all but thought you might like to know those are Granddad Braund's donkeys on the Clovelly street, we used to visit my aunt and uncle every year when I was young. Wouldn't bother now, owned by a syndicate not a family and been 'gentrified' and the pub on the quay is now a chain so my cousin tells me.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Sorry to butt in y'all but thought you might like to know those are Granddad Braund's donkeys on the Clovelly street, we used to visit my aunt and uncle every year when I was young. Wouldn't bother now, owned by a syndicate not a family and been 'gentrified' and the pub on the quay is now a chain so my cousin tells me.
You're not " butting in " at all @herbaceous . When did "the family" sell it? I'm still new to "these parts" so I'm pretty much at the mercy of what folk tell me.
Sorry to butt in y'all but thought you might like to know those are Granddad Braund's donkeys on the Clovelly street, we used to visit my aunt and uncle every year when I was young. Wouldn't bother now, owned by a syndicate not a family and been 'gentrified' and the pub on the quay is now a chain so my cousin tells me.
You've always welcome to 'butt in' herbaceous So they would've been your family's donkeys when I was there in the 60s ? How lovely is that?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you @Hostafan1 and memory can be tricky when you're over 21! As far as I recall the 'family' owned it right up to the turn of the century, they maintained the properties as well as they could and gave preference to local families like my Uncle so the cottages wouldn't end up just used by weekenders. I imagine the cost was enormous and I guess that's why it got sold off to some conglomerate.
Two of my Aunts married fishermen, one in Clovelly and one in Bideford, both sadly passed on now and my cousins are less secure in their cottages than they were back in the day. You should have heard them on the subject of 'visitors' who treated the village like a theme park, Mrs Morris opposite my Aunt often found people wandering in her garden and living room!
You live in a lovely part of the country, I have many fond memories of my summers in N Devon, lucky you
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
All of that discussion sounds lovely. How nice to see a little village like that. Hosta I’ll be thinking about you tomorrow. You should be ok. Hope they sort out what’s been going on with you. Fairy, we had snow on the hills across the valley that lasted until about lunch time today, but has disappeared since. I’ve got a photo, but it’s not easy to see the bits with the snow.
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Great pic @Fairygirl
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Two of my Aunts married fishermen, one in Clovelly and one in Bideford, both sadly passed on now and my cousins are less secure in their cottages than they were back in the day. You should have heard them on the subject of 'visitors' who treated the village like a theme park, Mrs Morris opposite my Aunt often found people wandering in her garden and living room!
You live in a lovely part of the country, I have many fond memories of my summers in N Devon, lucky you
Hosta I’ll be thinking about you tomorrow. You should be ok. Hope they sort out what’s been going on with you.
Fairy, we had snow on the hills across the valley that lasted until about lunch time today, but has disappeared since. I’ve got a photo, but it’s not easy to see the bits with the snow.