First, we had The Beast from the East (with the Vest from the West much in need!) then we had the 'Mini Beast from the East' .... which turned out to be more of a monster than its Big Brother!
Snow! Snow Snow!
MARCH 19th 2018
First, we had The Beast from the East (with the Vest from the West much in need!) then we had the 'Mini Beast from the East' .... which turned out to be more of a monster than its Big Brother!
First, we had The Beast from the East (with the Vest from the West much in need!) then we had the 'Mini Beast from the East' .... which turned out to be more of a monster than its Big Brother!
The Return of Escape to the Country
FEBRUARY 27th 2018
Back in 2012 we had a bit of a windfall - one of the winning numbers for the London Olympics Lottery Raffle Prize turned out to be our number. The outcome was that we finally had a chance to buy our own property and to get out of Walthamstow, N.E. London, in exchange for a prospective new home in Devon.
Problem: Finding said home.
Solution: Apply to go on Escape to the Country and let someone else do the leg-work!
The result was a couple of days with a BBC TV film crew in North Devon, and we bought the first house they showed us.
This one, in fact.
We moved in on the day it snowed heavily on 18th January 2013, and absolutely love it here.
Quite a few things have changed in the years between. Kathy married Adam, for instance, and we built an extension apartment for them.
We moved in with two cats, a dog and two horses. We now still have two cats (although Sybil has gone semi-feral) ...
... two dogs
hens, ducks and geese (and Ron still has his racing pigeons)
a donkey called Wonky Donk and four Exmoor ponies
three big show jumpers
with one more one the way, Saffie is in foal, due to be born in late March, early April
With all this additional excitement through the years, I invited the BBC TV Escape to the Country team back for their spin-off series I Escaped to the Country.
So on the 27th February 2018 we played host to the lovely Alistair Appleton and crew for the day.
No idea, yet, when the show will be broadcast ... but watch this space (or better still, sign up for my newsletter HERE and you'll get the date as soon as I know!)
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Back in 2012 we had a bit of a windfall - one of the winning numbers for the London Olympics Lottery Raffle Prize turned out to be our number. The outcome was that we finally had a chance to buy our own property and to get out of Walthamstow, N.E. London, in exchange for a prospective new home in Devon.
Problem: Finding said home.
Solution: Apply to go on Escape to the Country and let someone else do the leg-work!
The result was a couple of days with a BBC TV film crew in North Devon, and we bought the first house they showed us.
This one, in fact.
We moved in on the day it snowed heavily on 18th January 2013, and absolutely love it here.
Quite a few things have changed in the years between. Kathy married Adam, for instance, and we built an extension apartment for them.
We moved in with two cats, a dog and two horses. We now still have two cats (although Sybil has gone semi-feral) ...
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| Our old boy Rum sadly left us in March 2013 |
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| Mab |
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| Sybil |
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| Baz |
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| Eddie |
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| Christmas Goose |
three big show jumpers
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| Lexie (Shinglehall Casino) |
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| Wexford Pippa |
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| Saffie - La Rafaelle |
With all this additional excitement through the years, I invited the BBC TV Escape to the Country team back for their spin-off series I Escaped to the Country.
So on the 27th February 2018 we played host to the lovely Alistair Appleton and crew for the day.
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| Baz wasn't very impressed |
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| Although he adored Alistair |
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| Mr Mischief, of course, wanted to know if anything was edible... |
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| Then it was time for lunch, which we provided The cheese was from the Cheese Larder in South Molton |
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| Donkey, however did not want to join in |
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| ... until Alistair walked away |
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| I think he was scared because the boom-microphone looked a bit like donkey fur |
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| Phew, it's hard work this being on TV lark! |
< My Previous article Game of Thrones
16th January A Bit of a Scare!
Well, at least we now know that the Fire Brigade know where we are, that it takes them 20 minutes to get from South Molton and about 5 to get round the right-angle bends in our narrow lane! LOL Hopefully, this will be the only time we ever see a fire engine outside our house! I'll (maybe) not complain about the rain again... had the trees next door not been saturated that sparking 11,000 volt electric cable would have sent the lot up - possible our dairy and stables as well! HUGE thank you to the fire brigade and Western Power! (and I won't grumble about the churned-up lane, scraped banks and flattened snowdrops...) Also thank you to our 'guardian angels' (our resident ghost friends who keep an eye on the place) for nudging fate to send me up the lane to help get the playing-up naughty ponies & Donk in. I rely on hearing a lot more than my weak sight - so was instantly alert to an odd crackling sound - the overhead cable sparking!
All well in the end thank goodness!
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| one rather large fire engine outside our dairy! |
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Sitting as a family before our cosy log fire .... candles lit, glass of red wine in hand, chicken and kebab take-away dinner consumed (also by candlelight), what more could we have wanted? Well maybe electricity! LOL
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