What a washout !!!!
Anyone who had spent any part of the last fortnight in Devon would be hard pressed to believe the stories of impending doom through global water shortages.
I have seriously never seen rain like it.
Admittedly, we did have a very nice cottage backing onto the beautiful beach in Budleigh Salterton.
But you try spending any stretch of time with three adolescents in a confined space in the pouring rain with no internet connection.
At one point - yes this did actually happen - the Elworthy family were compelled to do jigsaws!
I don't know which wag from the EG (actually I have a pretty good idea) posted the image of a thunderstorm to explain my absence from the blog, but, sadly, it was pretty much on the money.
We had one gloriously sun-drenched day (last Wednesday, since you ask) but we had such a good time that day that it only made us all the more resentful for what might have been, had the gods smiled upon us
Budleigh Salterton, btw, is a complete charming place, a sort of Southwold-for-the-West-Country. And it did also have the added benefit of making me and 'im indoors feel quite young as we set off sprightly-like for our nightly pint of Otter ale in the Salterton Arms with the septuagenarian and octogenarian locals.
