Beautiful weather

The fantastic weather continues – it’s going to be hard accepting the rain when it comes! Mum is staying with us at the moment which is lovely – I get all the ironing done plus we have her company! It was so hot the other day that we took the dogs down to Landacre Bridge for a picnic, walk and swim. They love the water – Soda continually swimming for sticks while the spaniels pottered in and out busy doing nothing, something they so well. At the moment they are collapsed out on the lawn and we won’t take them out until this evening when it cools down.

We have a busy week with some of our bed and breakfast guests returning for another ‘fix’ of Exmoor and others coming to the area for the first time but all saying they will come again. A neighbour dropped a beautiful trout in that he caught that morning and I was debating on how I should tackle gutting it when one of our guests called Rob mentioned that he used to catch and gut trout all the time when he was young. Not one to waste an opportunity, 5 minutes later I had a beautifully prepared fish courtesy of Rob!

The weather has certainly shown off the moor to its best – it looks stunning at the moment with all the trees coming into bud and the bluebells, primroses and wildflowers filling the hedgerows. Derek has been busy in the garden and although the daffs are past their best, there is still loads of colour.