It is so beautiful at Cockington on a summer’s morning that we went twice in the space of a week; firstly with our friend Sally from Cyprus and again with Roland who is over from Australia. 

You will notice from some of the photographs that the residents of Cockington are rather keen on visitors behaving themselves well. Naughty children are mincemeat in the hands of authoritarian householders and older miscreants are sent to the stocks. As you can see Roly got himself in a bit of bother – perhaps he was caught red-handed? He was tied up for a while but all was forgiven and we ended up in The Church House Inn at Combeinteignhead where we wet our whistles and shared a bowl of chips for lunch. Funnily enough, Chris thought he was taking us to The Masons’ Arms… which is in Branscombe, East Devon! He’s still trying to live it down.