Whole day in Devon Part Four : Ice cream, Bluebells and. . .The quiz nightly Horrabridge.

KOur mission is to be fed and at the quiz by 7.30,so we need to get going., back through the lower parts of  Dartmoor I've th cattle stops .

Oh we manage a Devonshire cream ice cream, a must to experience in Devon, and so it is.

It is made from clotted Devonshire cream.and then on top is layered actual straight Devonshire clotted cream. It is very smooth it is almost yellow. But get the name of the name  on they van. I love  it

And then treat of all treats in the cooler shadier wooded parts of Dartmoor on the way home, hah, a mass of bluebells, which mainly are finished here and usually are a thing of May but it's a late season here, in England this year, everywhere. Is this not lovely. is this also not a kiwi fern beside ? No it's a kind of bracken that is dormant and quickly sprouts. The bluebells dominate and then the bracken can grow big, so much so that at Knole they can hide the deer.

These stone walls line the road which is narrow. or see below, which is more 

Now this is a road.  Imagine meeting a Pajero and horse float on this. And you do and they (the locals) seem quite unphased when they meet a car. You can see that I have the prized front seat and I am not wasting it. The fields are higher than the roads, which are old, but I still don't understand how they are lower than the fields.

It's some lovely home made soup and  wiener and chunky bread a quick change, and armed with snacks and tuff we got from YELVERTON ,

(I keep thinking of Galverston the song,.) We did not buy these but look at the personalised coke above, that Lewis is displaying. 

It's all a bit of a tradition and is held in the school hall.

This photo of our book group team may be an indication of the consumption - nervous of the red wine you se in the fore ground. But do not think BGGT  translated Book Group Got Talent, were as dilly as this picture. At one point and for a while we were 2nd. and there were lots of groups.

Another reasonably appalling photo. And I was drinking coke at this point.

That's the score board in the distance. Goodness knows how we managed that. These twomin the foreground, well  one of them you can only see her black hair on right ) had husbands providing the deeper questions like science and hard out sport. But no cheating. Anyway we got third equal, and the people migrated on foot across the park and to the pub.

It was a very fun  evening and we got home at midnight, Lewis left a detailed babysitting letter. I am exhausted.