Can they do it? Yes they can!

A certain yellow helmeted builder has an unexplained hold over young kids. My nephews are no exception. Even hidden at the back of a Morrison's supermarket in Totnes the lure of Bob the Builder is unmistakable. Firing up their imagination, the nephews join Bob for some hardcore building.

Off to the mother country

Since the passing of my grandmother there aren't as many reasons to go to England as before. Being asked by my sister to join her and her family for a week in Devon is therefore an opportunity not to pass over! Squeezed in the back, in between nephews Luca and Matthies, we head off on a rainy Saturday morning.

Don't mention the War!

Us Brits are a nostalgic people. Despite such decades as the Fifties, Sixties or Seventies, the most nostalgic of periods continues to be those years of fighting for freedom against the Hun, heroism & sacrifice, and an Empire on which the sun still would not set. The World War II slogans embodying the calm reserve and stiff upper lip of the besieged Brit have made a resounding comeback.