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Archive for August 2022

Holiday 2022: Plymouth

On the third day of our holiday we visited Plymouth. Our first stop was the Mayflower Museum which cost £8 for a family ticket. In case you don’t know, The Mayflower was a ship that sailed to America in 1620 and the museum charts their voyage but also looks at the catastrophic effect of their […]

The Mother In Law, by Karen King

Dana and Sam have a whirlwind romance and plan to marry within six months. Everything seems perfect except for Dana’s feeling of unease around Sam’s mum Evelyn. A series fo events threatens to ruin the wedding but can her prospective mother in law really be trying to prevent the wedding…? The Mother In Law is […]

Holiday 2022: Lydford Castle, Museum of Dartmoor Life and Okehampton Castle

For our first full day of holiday, we started with the castle situated less than 5 minutes’ walk away from our holiday cottage. Lydford Castle is a cube shaped ruin dating from Norman times. Despite its name, the castle was in fact a prison and courthouse rather than a dwelling or fortification. We also popped […]

Dead Real, by Helen H. Durrant

An estate’s bad reputation deteriorates further when a cat comes home with a human foot. A body has been left rotting for weeks and Calladine is afraid that an old serial killer has returned to the streets… Dead Real is the 12th book in Helen H. Durrant’s Calladine and Bayliss series. The personal storyline continues […]

Holiday 2022: Salisbury Cathedral and Lyme Regis

We had a fabulous holiday on the Devon/Cornwall border. Although we’ve only home for a few days the holiday already seems so long ago 🙁 It was a very busy 8 days as we crammed in as many places as possible whilst also taking the time to enjoy being together as a family. We broke […]