The Kingsbridge Show

Another working week has gone by that sees us becoming more and more settled in our new home, in Salcombe and more generally in Devon. The weather has again been indifferent and the coming of the Kingsbridge Show must surely have been the signal for a bad weekend.

The weekend was one of two halves. As expected the Saturday of the show was dull and overcast and there was even a few showers - nothing much, but enough to put a dampener on things. We did use one of the showers as an excuse to shelter under an exhibitors tent and found that the guy's company may have a solution for our lawn. The needles from the Monterrey pines will be an ongoing problem, but getting the lawn in some sort of order will probably help.

The show itself was what you'd expect, but there was a real bias towards country pursuits and a lot of exhibitors selling farm machinery. New Holland tractors were on display an we wondered if Julie's brother Gary might have contact with the dealers, working for the mother company as he does. The horse and jumping events were really well supported and some of the livestock was spectacular. How the guys trust themselves to lead a few tons of prime beef around by the nose is something to see - if it wanted to it could easily bolt and nobody could stop it. There were a couple of escapees and a bit of friskiness from other animals, but it all adds to the fun.

On the Sunday a different day altogether and shortly after lunch Pete's cousin, Chris turned up with his wife Cora and son Quin. They live in South Molton and drove down to spend the day with us, which was really good. It was great to see them and gave us all an excuse to walk around the town, stopping for lunch at North Sands (obviously at the Winking Prawn). They had never been to Salcombe before and were really impressed.

Another working week a head with Pete off to London for a couple of days so next weeks blog will probably again be about our weekend.