Last day of the tour! Our route took us right across Dartmoor, so we stopped for a quick look at Haytor as well as at another Dartmoor landmark: the Pixieland gift shop at Dartmeet, with its garden populated by dozens of gnomes. Smurf thought he’d made a new friend and went in for a hug, but was
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En route from Colebrooke to Manaton, we stopped for lunch at a very nice pub in North Bovey, where I couldn’t resist arranging my mussel shells in neat serried rows and Martin couldn’t resist taking a photo of Smurf reposing on top of them. Sad, isn’t it ....
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En route from Tiverton to Colebrooke, we called in to
Hugh Manson’s guitar shop in Exeter, so that I could get the truss rod tweaked on my guitar ... which was of course made by Hugh’s brother, Andy Manson! That’s Hugh on the right in the photo below. I’d never been to the shop before, and it was
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The kids were off school today due to the public services strike, so I was able to have a lovely long video Skype chat with both of them. Below is a photo of my daughter singing me a song she’s been learning for her school nativity play -- in which she’s going to be playing the role of Mary! My heart feels as
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Just a hop, skip and jump today from Bridgend to Cardiff, where we were spending a very welcome day and night off with the wonderful Bill and
Rachel Taylor-Beales. Long before I met Rachel, I’d written rave reviews of her first two albums,
Brilliant Blue and
Red Tree. When her third album
Dust and Gold
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