I'm not lonely loĺ

 The doorbell rang on Monday afternoon, and there stood daughter and granddaughter saying, 'surprise surprise!" I didn't even know they were coming, but it was nice to see them again. Our dog, Molly, was at the groomers that day, which is a good thing as daughter is allergic, and so am I now. I never was before I had these 2 spaniels. Molly came home and smelled lovely of coconut shampoo. We all settled on a Chinese takeaway for dinner as we didn't have enough food thawed out in the fridge to cook for them both. 

Tuesday Mark, our son, came in the evening for 2 nights. He's back at work on Good Friday and working all over Easter..

We all had a walk around the town but I didn't buy anything, and we ended up in a nice little friendly pub for a drink. Granddaughter had fun walking the dogs on the beach and park each day with son and OH. She loves it here and didn't want to go home! 

Wednesday we all went for a meal in a village between Dawlish and Teignmouth. The food was lovely but a very limited menu with only a choice of 5 main courses, 2 vegetarian, 1 steak, 1 chicken and 1 pasta. I would go there again and think it may be a better choice in the summer season. There was a 'special board' but it was all fish and shellfish. 

Our favourite restaurant was the Ship in a small village called Cockwood. Sadly the building was made of Cob and the side of the building collapsed just before it opened one lunchtime. Luckily nobody was injured. I think that was 2 years ago but it still hasn't been repaired. OH says it's because they put the wrong paint on it and boarded the inside walls. Apparently, you have to take special care of Cob buildings as if the walls can't breathe they can collapse like this! I felt sorry for the chef as he lived upstairs, and all his flat contents ended up outside his TV, sofa, everything, and with the rubble all over it. At the moment the building is secured with scaffolding and plastic sheets. Some locals say the insurance have refused to pay for the repairs but I don't know if that's true. 

Son, daughter and granddaughter all left on Thursday evening so we are alone again for now lol. I try not to do much housework when family stay so I've been catching up on the washing 6 loads! and cleaning for the last few days. My office is a real mess as son brought down a huge box of small boxes, bubble wrap and packaging for me. Trouble is things are very slowly selling on ebay atm. Only 4 small items in April so far. I'm thinking of doing a car boot sale in the summer to clear a lot out. I'm putting anything big on Facebook market place so fingers crossed.

Bye for now All the best 

Sally x 






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