New Year's Day

Wednesday 1st Jan 2014- New Year’s Day

Happy New Year to all our friends and family and anyone else who maybe reading this Blog. Well what a turnaround in the weather from yesterday, today is heavy rain and winds. We started the day with a lovely breakfast and a look through old photos, and picked Ian and Linda’s brains on places in Europe to visit. Then Linda knocked up some scones, so of course we had to have some of those with cream and jam!!!! No wonder we’re getting fatter and fatter!!! Set off back to Chagford to help out Alison at the hotel for a few more days. The rain was awful and we had to be aware of the water on the roads. Stopped at Lydford Castle as this is mentioned in the book The Sun and The Serpent (all about the St Michael Ley Line), when the authors dowsed the castle (as it is on the’ line’) they had a terrible feeling for the place and felt sick!!! They believe a black line crosses it, during Henry VIII’s reign the castle was described as “one of the most heinous, contagious and detestable places in the realm”. It’s really interesting and worth a google on the subject (or is it just me?!!!!!!!!!!!!) Got back to Alison’s for a quiet night in with meat pies and a movie The Life of Pi. 

I stood in the pouring rain for this shot