A lovely and busy weekend!

We had a very busy weekend with lots of our bed and breakfast guests going to a wedding at Knowle Manor which is only about 2 miles from us. Knowle Manor a beautiful country house situated in its own grounds with a lake and is becoming a popular venue for weddings and large family parties. The weather was kind and by all accounts everyone had a wonderful day.

Tim and Bex’s came down for the weekend and it was lovely to see them again. On Saturday we went to Porlock and had a stroll around the town and spent a long time in the art gallery. The gallery tends to concentrate on the high quality work of local artists and pictures based on and around Exmoor. Luckily there were so many pictures I would have liked that I couldn’t decide on any!

We then went down to Porlock Weir and saw the arrival of another wedding party plus several guests that we knew. It was a lovely sight down on the harbour. After sustenance of Styles ice cream, we went home to pick the dogs up and took them to Blackford to pick blackberries. Then we went to The Blue Ball at Countisbury for a meal out – excellent company, traditional location and very good food – perfect!

Derek took them riding on Paddy and Rupert. I think that this is only about the third time that Tim has actually sat on a horse in his life. At the start of the ride, Tim commented on how easy it was and that it wasn’t tiring in the slightest. Moving on to a trot – he rapidly changed his opinion!

As we were busy doing change-over’s in the bedrooms on Sunday, Tim and Bex’s cooked Sunday roast followed by apple and blackberry crumble. It was delicious! Time went all too quickly and soon they were on their way home again. 2 hours of ironing followed by a walk with the dogs saw me collapsed on the sofa by about 8.00pm!

Derek is out riding today so I’m just about to load up the dogs and go blackberry picking again – the harvest is fantastic this year.