The trouble with B and B’s is that they don’t like giving you breakfast early. The earliest our B and B would serve breakfast was 8.30, which meant that we could not get going until 9.00.
Another lovely day. I wear sudo creme to act as a barrier for the cold sore which has developed on my lower lip. I also smear it all over any other parts of my body which are exposed. The anti-biotic which I take for the bronchitis makes skin sensitive to light. It comes up in a stinging rash. The sudo creme is very good but gives me a weirdly voodooish expression. Those old enough to remember, one of whom is Barnaby, make jokes about the Black and White Minstrel show. Naturally I offer the Sudo Creme to Barnaby who declines politely. He knows I also use it for the unpleasant sweat rash I have developed.
More coast path work. It is beautiful but that green sward hides steep creeks and valleys.
Reggie enjoys the view
Higher sharp nose point. The path ends with a cliff. Black rocks stick out into the sea. Flowers grow happily on the rock.
Morewenstow Church, where Barnaby and Lucy left me. By then Reggie, their terrier, had become very attached to me, I thought. His master, Barnaby, only had one walking pole whereas I had two.
‘One stick good’, Reggie told me, ‘Two sticks better’. But the person who he loved best was Lucy. Reggie said smugly, ‘Two sticks Ok; 4 wheels best’…. Well, I’ll drink to that.
I walked accross country to Clovelly, well almost to Clovelly where Jasper Clarke picked me up, with his funny little black spaniel cross called Henry. Henry is a very playful dog and scampered down the drive in front of the car. Jasper took me down to look at the harbour. It is a private harbour established by Act of parliament in the 1600s. With it’s plain stone steps and stripped woodend tree trunks for fenders it could be the set for Treasure Island. There is a refreshing lack of municpal health and safety clutter: not a rail, nor life buoy, nor notice in site. Jasper took me back to his house where he very kindly gave me a bed and the best pasta and meat balls I have ever had in my life.
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