you are amazing to be able to move into your mums place , you must have nerves of steel !!! i have huge admiration for carers like yourself .
Thanks. I’d like that to be true but it’s not. My mother on the other hand is an amazing selfless person who has had a really hard life and richly deserves to be cared for.
I wish. 
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Room to yourself now Paul?
Oh yes, it ain’t massive but it will do me 
Suddenly the hassle of moving seems worth it.
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Same as me. Had to wait till I was into my 50s but worth it in the end.
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We decided to do a kayak expedition & chose the River Avon travelling North with the tide upriver from the charming hamlet of Bantham up to Aveton Gifford.
View upriver
& South towards the sea
Below where those shots were taken there’s a little slipway & a few buildings around it.
We set off & soon got in amongst the usual kaleidoscope of colours. Green & yellow fields, dark clumped trees down to the water’s edge & aquamarine water teeming with good sized mullet. It’s actually quite a wide & shallow estuary with a pale sand beneath. We almost had to be careful not to go up too fast ahead of the tide as there was a chance we’d run out of water beneath us. An hour & a half of paddling & floating with the tide brought us up to the village of Aveton Gifford & we abandoned the kayaks and took the tidal road alongside the estuary which disappears when the tide gets right up.
We made our way to the Fisherman’s rest for some lunch (I had a very good Goan style fish curry) & several pints of Otter ale
We had a brief wander up the pretty high st but there was not much to see (the village shop was closed for Sunday PM) so then headed back to the Kayaks along the tidal road which by this time was underwater.
We set off back down. The tide was turning but not yet helping & there was a light, head on breeze so I gave Mrs J a tow for some of the way.
Back down at Bantham we spent a couple of hours (including a well earned swim) on the busy beach which looks across towards Burgh Island & the famous Art Deco Hotel.
A good day all told. Will sleep well tonight. 
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That looks like a fantastic day out Guy. Nice one.
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I spent my first ever holiday with my parents in Bigbury in 1970, a beautiful part of the country. 
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A perfect day!
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You live in a beautiful part of the Country Guy, and make good use of it!
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I trust you gave the stink eye to any marauding Brownies en route - Apparently they have concocted 12 new badges to keep in step with modernity. Perhaps the stalking / paddle larceny badge got the kaibosh ?
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I did hear about the new badges. Gill was disappointed to learn that the hard won ‘hostess’ badge had been dropped. We were wondering what its 21st century replacement would be. 
Handmaid.
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Escort?
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Decorating…
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Social media
Snapchat
There’s a lot of that going about. 
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The decorators at the country house where I am working are about to paper the Garden Room, a fairly modest room approx 6mx5m, The cost of the hand painted paper? £30K + 
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