A visual on our week

We've parked under a willow tree at the campsite, it seemed fitting. We're enjoying debating on how we'd run a campsite if we were in charge (it's a revenue stream that seems a good match with landowning / animal rearing). This campsite seems to have lots of rules - Ady got told off for walking on the grass!

Here's the lovely Willow at night, looks cosy doesn't she? It's bloody freezing at night this week (making us very edgey about sleeping in a tent next week) but the van is snug and warm.

 We've been experimenting with campervan cooking. We have a two ring hob, a small grill and small oven. They definitely cook slower than a domestic oven and we're glad we brought thin camping pots and pans. We're mostly lacking workspace though, so meals have to be planned in advance and everything kept very organised.I cooked a lovely breakfast of sausage, bacon, eggs and toast yesterday - a repeat has been asked for tomorrow.










We've done some eating seperately to the kids, prepping our dinner while they eat theirs and watch a film.

Today in honour of being in Devon I made some scones to have with some home made jam we'd brought along with us and some local clotted cream and we enjoyed a cream tea.

 When we're not cooking, eating or otherwise hanging out in the van we've been walking. Lots and lots of walking. We've seen herons, buzzards and Star brought her animal tracking book out with us today and identified a front and back footprint from an otter at a point along the walk we'd seen yesterday and speculated on whether it was a path to and from the river for otters. We also picked some wild garlic to have in our dinner tonight and with the help of google, and
 identified some scarlet elf cup fungus, which apparently while edible is not particuarly nice to eat but is used to garnish salads as it is bright and colourful.