You know one of those films, shows or books you just can't get out of your head and want to keep going back to it? Well I have had that happen to me recently, with the acclaimed podcast and detective series, called 'The Teacher's Pet,' from Hedley Thomas on behalf of The Australian. If you've ever heard of or loved 'Serial,' a similar popular series, you'll love this expose as we go behind the scenes in the last days of Lynn Dawson. Was she murdered by her narcissistic psychopath husband? Because yes, it turns out that Chris Dawson appears to…

Home news blog – Come to our concert – Songs from Shows – with Barry Parsons and me singing to help raise funds for the village church roof. It’s in Sheepwash on August 22nd – a Wednesday eve at 7pm. Refreshments are at our place in the interval in return for a donation. It’ll be lovely to have a good sing song and song sheets will be handed out too! Email us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for tickets, get them in the village shop or pay on the night at St Lawrence’s church, Sheepwash. We were asked to do it after our…

Have you ever found yourself in a place where in the middle of the afternoon, you need to go eat, but nothing is open? NOTHING?!! That's what happened to my Yoga pal Jennie and me one Saturday afternoon in the middle of North Devon. Went to yoga - nearly fell asleep as usual - so relaxing. Especially after the huge number of guests I was looking after - see below. Then it was about 2.45pm so we went off for some 'lunch'. Except in the area I live, there is NO FOOD served for a couple of hours mid afternoon.…

It's that season again here in Devon! And they do this 'scarecrow' competition type thing, creating characters to sit out the front of houses and hopefully win a competition. This one's got to stand a chance hasn't it?! Talk about Yabba-dabba-doooo!! Very well made and still there weeks later, even after heavy rain! And what rain we had, didn't we?! As usual I was in the 'other place' when the worst of the weather and storms and lightening was taking place - Devon got it when I was in London etc. But during one particular hour on air at QVC…

What an amazing new place my lovely daughter will be bringing up her first baby in. My second grandchild will be in a countryside home, on a smallholding with 22 acres, where Nick / daddy will be building yurts and treehouses for rental. His parents share the place and it was a smashing trip to see it for me last week. I loved seeing my grandpogs and am very happy there's a grandsprog being brewed too! They have several fields, one of which houses lovely horses - one of them decided to do a quick bum-scratch-dance for us which was…