Follow the brown signs

I love it when people send me pictures of brown signs, it shows they're thinking of my project and know how much I'll appreciate them taking a photo and bothering to show me (you really don't know how happy it makes me, very happy). So when Simon came back from The Grand Canyon he was immediately on the email to share this little gem. Unfortunate really that he knew how much I'd appreciate this one in particular, not just for it's colour but also for it's content. I am such...

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On my way back from Plymouth (once again with my foot to floor just about hitting 60 trying to make it back for my evening shift) I saw this brown sign for Buckfast Abbey on the edge of Dartmoor off the A38. Chris had told me I'd pass the abbey on the way home and when he mentioned it was real life functioning monastery I was extremely excited. I don't think I've ever visited a monastery with actual monks in it outside Asia and I've always been interested in the...

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This week I had two days off work... Woooooooooohhhhhhhhh! Handily I got them next to each other so I could actually do something with my time off (washing my clothes and writing a book don't count as "doing something" with my time off you understand). I'll take any excuse to go down and visit my good pal Chris in Plymouth and as my parents were also holidaying in Teignmouth I made Devon my destination. So, as with all my post evening shift jaunts, I found myself setting off on a...

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