Week 7 of our new life Home and Away

Monday a trip to Exeter was required today after receiving a phone call from our bank to tell us possible fraudulent activity had been going on.  That is the trouble of being in too many places at once, things were fine, just flagged up as we are doing a lot of moving around just now.  Good for the bank to be on the ball. Visited Exeter Cathedral whilst we were there so was a useful visit.

Exeter Cathedral Side View

Exeter Cathedral Entrance

Tuesday, dad wanted to go out today so once the housework was done off we went, first stop Widecombe, dad used to bring my sister and I here when we were little girls, beautiful village with the usual lovely church, ponies roaming over the green and Uncle Tom Cobleys chair sited in one of the gift shops now.  Then on to Dartmoor, beautiful scenery, ponies roaming all over and cows the size of houses, must be the plentiful grass, on into Princetown, HMP Dartmoor is located very near here and if a prisoner escapes, an alarm sounds to alert the villagers to batten down the hatches, village is lovely, prison a bit grim.  On the way back we passed by Pixieland which appears to be a tiny place in itself dedicated to Pixies, and yes there were pixies in all shapes and sizes, evidently when I was little we could not pass it unless I was able to go in and needless to say add to my pixie collection, uummhh think I have grown up!!

Roaming Ponies

Widecombe Green

Uncle Tom Cobleys Chair

Statement

Widecombe Church

Wednesday - today is the day for doing jobs for dad day, Douglas has become the Driller Killer, dad needed a new telephone line put in so Douglas had to drill the hole from the garage through to the living room and proceed to put in new cable and connect to telephone, Douglas hates using power tools, but give him his due he done the job much to Dads great satisfaction.  Next we had to go down to the Dentist and organise a home visit for Dad to get his teeth looked at, one long registration form later appointment booked, lastly a new fridge freezer is required due to the intermittent breakdown of the one he has, so with dads requirements written down we had to go and hunt one down, take photographs and then let dad decide what he wants.  Success we found one locally which will suit his needs, so a cheeky wee Morgans was achieved.  Shopping for Dad is more difficult than shopping for myself.  A successful day for Dad, and now he can sit in his chair and think up more jobs to be done LOL.
Thursday, a really hot day again this weather is fantastic, dad wanted to go and he wanted to go and have a look at mobility scooters, so we took him to Trago Mills which have a great selection and you can try before you buy.  This is probably not a funny story and I am not being disrespectful to dad but he made me laugh so much today I have to relate the tale.  The salesman for these scooters was very good explaining all the individual plus and minus points of each scooter, dad spotted a couple that he liked and of course he wanted the best (like father like daughter - now Douglas realises where I get it from).  Would you like to have a go and try one out the salesman said, well dad was not too sure but after a bit of encouragement he decided why not, well he got on it very easily adjusted seat position, handlebars etc, balanced, turned the key and off he scooted.  Well one poor unsuspecting shopper had to jump out of the way, and then he upped the ante and went full speed, well! he had such a mischievous look on his face (like a wee school boy let loose in a sweetie shop), I had to run to try and keep up with him all the while crying because I was laughing so much until he came to a halt. Dad steered it correctly back to the waiting salesman, and was highly delighted.  We brought him home with plenty of literature to read and I have this terrifying thought of him being loose on the streets of Dawlish with his scooter.  Think he will eventually buy one or ask Santa for one!!!
Some not so good news from home, Adrian is having big problems trying to locate the waste pipes etc for our bathrooms, and after major digging and a broken Jack Hammer we have had to change the plan for the suicide bathroom, something I did not want to do but at the end of the day rather than digging to the ends of the earth to locate pipes we might just as well feed new ones in.  We knew that there would be issues with plumbing and drainage etc but to lose at least 5 days for locating pipes is not worth it. So another change of plan, hope there will not be too many issues like this.

Master Bathroom

Suicide Bathroom

Friday, a text from Adrian today, he thinks he has been able to find a way to put waste pipes in the bathroom so that we can keep to the original plan, we would be far happier with that so hopefully it will work.  Went to Lanford today to source a swimming pool cover, we were able to see the products that they supplied and shipping is not too bad, we think it will work out cheaper than buying one in Portugal, so just waiting on the final quote to decide.
Saturday, Dad wanted to sort out his bedroom and wardrobes today, so we just got stuck in, and managed to get him to throw out 3 tables so we took them to the recycling centre before he could change his mind, on the way back a cheeky wee Morgans in the Smugglers Inn.
Sunday slight cloud coming in today but Dad fancied going out so off we went to Brixham, a lovely fishing village complete with Harbour, ferry trips, usual restaurants, and 1940s Naval Ship called HMS Fairisle wich is still kitted out as it was then, and a replica of The Golden Hind sitting in the harbour, we walked all around the harbour, dad enjoyed seeing all the ships and also the fishing vessels complete with their kit, and then Cornish Pasties all round before coming back.  Coming up to our last couple of days here and then heading up to Fife on Wednesday so looking forward to meeting up with Family and as many friends as possible.

Replica Golden Hind

Brixham Harbour

HMS Fairisle