It rained quite a bit this morning and we didn't think we'd get to go anywhere, but by midday the skies cleared and the sun came out. So we went into Kingsbridge highstreet and pottered around the shops and the market. Nick also treated us to some gorgeous ice-cream (made locally in Salcombe - honeycombe is may absolute fave).
Ben really enjoyed his ice-cream!
Next we went to the South Devon Chilli Farm. Nick tried some Bhut Jolokia - the hottest chilli in the world. He tasted a chilli mash that was made with about only 3% of bhut jolokia and it was painful !(we love chilli but this was insane - I only dared taste it with the tip of my tongue!)
Finally we went on a hunt for, according to Nick's gran Pat, the best, most traditonal tasting scones she's found yet. Well, we drove all around, made a few phonecalls, drove around some more and then eventually found this farm shop and PYO. It was worth the effort though. After dinner - which is not at all the proper time to have a cream tea mind - we had delicious fresh scones and even more delicious Devonshire clotted cream and strawberry Jam. Yum and double yum! Jasmine looked into her cup of (weak, warm) tea and asked where the cream was. She just couldn't get her head around the concept of a 'cream tea', bless.
After dinner we went for another wander in the woods and walked through a freshly cut wheat field (not an easy task, the cut wheat is just so stubby). On the way back Ben cut his finger really badly in a thorny bush, so out came the TCP when we got back. We promised him some more scones, cream and Jam if he was really brave and he really was. Jasmine played nurse and put the plaster on his finger (quite crookedly I might add - I had to adjust it when she wasn't looking!)
the Estuary, when the tide is out
Our soundtrack for the holiday so far has been a mix of Dub Step (Nick, and sometimes myself), Aleisha Dixon 'the boy does nothing' (Ben and Jasmine), 'Pass the dutchie' (Ben) and 'Rehab' by Amy Winehouse (Ben, Jas and me). The only problem is, once you start to allow the kids special requests, they want the same song to be played over and over again. I never liked that Aleisha Dixon song to begin with. I hate it now - but yet I can't seem to stop humming it........
Funny of the day: has to go to Ben, although Jasmine did come close.
1. Ben - When we were walking around Kingsbridge we wandered into the gardens of this old church and came across some old headstones. 'What's a graveyard?' Ben asked. 'I know,' he said, answering his own question, 'it's a yard with gravy in it!'. And he looked so pleased with himself for figuring it out :-)
2. Jasmine - When I was making Ben his second cream tea for being brave, Jasmine asked for some more too. 'More?!' I said (it was getting quite late). 'Well, I did put the plaster on!' she declared. And who was I to argue with that?!
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