Our New Life in Devon

 At the moment we're looking after the granddaughter as our daughter is at a wedding near Bath. They both came on Friday and daughter left on Saturday. She's back on Monday, tomorrow and staying here for a few days. Son also came Thursday for a couple of nights as he's working all over the Bank Holiday. Granddaughter went to watch the bowling matches in Dawlish today with OH. She's very well behaved with us on her own. It's was very hot here today at 28C so I spent the day at home. I managed to get 3 loads of washing dried outside in the hot sun. Putting it in and out was a problem though as I started to feel a bit dizzy in the heat. I get heat exhaustion regularly in the hot weather, especially if the temperature goes over 24C. It doesn't help that I have a lung condition so my breathing was a bit laboured at times. I won't be going out very much until it cools down a bit. OH and granddaughter took the dogs out at 9pm tonight. They always stay close and hav...

 Daughter and Granddaughter came to stay for a few days during the school holidays. As it was my birthday they brought cards and chocolates. Son sent a lovely bouquet 💐 of flowers which were delivered. Our eldest son video called me and we had a long chat.  A few days after they left we spent the weekend at daughter's house to care for Granddaughter as daughter was away on a Hen do in Wales. We visited our eldest son, DIL and the grandchildren. Son spent a long time showing us his latest gadget- a 3D printer. Very into gadgets and technology is our eldest. He actually works programming circuit boards or chips to make new equipment work, ie like medical machines or airplane parts etc. We visited my BIL while we were there too, as we haven't seen him for a while. Came home on Monday and arranged to visit my friend in Exeter on Friday last week. Then our nephew messaged wanting to come for the weekend with his girlfriend. We said no this time, as OH is away most of Saturday and ...