Salcombe Merlin Rocket Week

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Last weekend off...

This is the last weekend that Pete will have off until we go off on our holiday to Turkey in September. The job on the fuel barge will become full-time next week and today is our last chance to go out on a weekend.

Julie is still rowing and is more serious about it than ever, so much so that she rows three times a week when she can and when she can't row she goes to the gym. It seems to be working as her

fitness is improving and clothes are a

little more "comfortable". She is keen, but still has no real ambition to race.

While she rows Pete will take a walk through the town and have a coffee and a doughnut until she finishes. He usually has a camera and was interested to see the pansies growing out of the cracks in the pavement and the poppies growing from the kerb. If there is somewhere for a seed to germinate down here it will and the site is

spectacular.

In the afternoon we went off to Otters garden centre followed by a walk down at Avon Mill. It was really quiet and peaceful amongst the trees and the canopy was really dense. It's a lovely spot to walk, but due to the light conditions hard to take photographs - Pete tried...

In the evening a couple of friends came

round for an Indian takeaway, which

was really nice (food and the company).