Home from home; The Blue Ball Inn, Countisbury North Devon. I really can't rave about it enough. As soon as I walk through the wooden, latched door, I really feel like I've entered a second home. As I mentioned, we couldn't get three nights here hence our one night of 馃槺 at The Captains House. As we entered Jan, the new owner greeted us and, after handing over the key, said: "You know where you're going, don't you seeing as you're a regular." to be honest, I thought: "MADE IT! I'm a regular!" 馃ぃ
I looked at the key number. I admit I wasn't listening, but in my defence, neither was the wife. I put the key into the lock of room 6, but the key wouldn't turn? I pulled the key out, checked it, put it back in, and still refused to turn. The door opened. "Can I help you?" said the guy in front of me. "Ooh! I'm sorry, I must have the wrong room? I thought it was room six, but it must be room nine." The funny part is, I saw the guy at breakfast the next day and went over to apologise again. He said that he had kids banging on the door later that night; they, too, had got the wrong room. I said: "There must be something 'about' that room six?" We both laughed.
Charlie soon found his place in the room and settled down for a short rest before I dragged him over half of Exmoor while the wife, as wives do, busied herself unpacking and distributing her 'things' around every surface possible.
The picture on the left is St John the Evangelist church, opposite the Blue Ball. You walk up a little track to it, then through the gate up through the graveyard through another gate, and you're on Exmoor National Parkland. I've already uploaded a film showing Charlie and me walking up there during the gale-force winds.
We've visited Ilfracombe before but never been to look at Verity the statue by Damien Hirst
Wikipedia: The name of the piece refers to "truth", and Hirst describes his work as a "modern allegory of truth and justice". The statue depicts a pregnant woman holding aloft a sword while carrying the scales of justice which are skewed and standing on a pile of law books.
The wife, after looking at it for a while, said: "Hmm? I need to go and have a think about that." for probably the first and only time I wasn't sure if she was serious or taking the p...
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