Our New Life in Devon

 When we looked around this area in Devon hoping to move here we were extremely surprised at the amount of items people left outside their property. A walk down a small lane accessible by cars showed gardens with boats, playhouses, slides, numerous toys, adult and children's bikes, and numerous garden ornaments and plant pots totally unsecured. There were no gates on the gardens or chain locks on bikes, absolutely nothing. Now we came from a large city where nothing would be left if it was not secured with a high fence and chains. It wasn't a particularly rough area where we lived, quite nice on the edge of the city. Another surprise came after we moved and needed a battery charger for the caravan. We asked in a garage and they insisted on charging it for us for free - wouldn't accept payment, because it was 10 miles to a place that sold them. After a few months we heard shouting across the road with 6 or 7 teenagers running off. 2 police cars came in minutes with 4 police ...

        Our 2 dogs mum and daughter   Welcome to my new blog all about life in sunny Devon. We finally moved here in November 2019 and it didn't go smoothly to say the least. We looked at many houses and bungalows, had a buyer for our house and rented cheap storage to bring down boxes and move slowly. We had a date agreed with the buyer and a moving date for the new house but our buyer wanted it 2 weeks earlier and then our new house was put forward for a week leaving us homeless for 3 weeks with a pregnant dog. We moved in with daughter for a week and then lived in our touring caravan for a fortnight. Ten days after we moved in our lovely dog had 7 puppies. We took the door off of the understairs cupboard, lined the walls with hard clear plastic sheets, and she had them in there. Not ideal but best we could do in 10 days. The lockdown for covid came 4 months later but it didn't really affect us as we had nice neighbours to talk to, dog was walked during the 1 h...