Cast iron finger post in Braunton North Devon on the old Barnstaple to Ilfracombe road

Nice looking building the Methodist church in Guineaford Pool North Devon

In the village of Pilton North Devon

Requiring close attention and tonguework!

Proud Post Office sign in the village of Instow in North Devon

The delightfully secluded parish church of Rackenford village in North Devon

A seagull on one leg at Clovelly North Devon

Ashreigney Parish Church in North Devon

Just collected from Julian Matthews of Gulfstream surfboards. Never been waxed. Julian shaped the board from a 'blank' I had bought in 1976!

Dating the build and rebuild of the Long Bridge in Barnstaple North Devon

A peaceful rural scene just outside the village of Brendon

I put it on a pound coin to show how big it was! Then I took it off, put it on a 10p coin and took this photo...

I had bought the 'blank' in 1976, meaning to make another surfboard, but never got round to it. The recent closure of the Clark Foam factory prompted me to look out the old blank. I took it to Julian Matthews of Gulfstream surboards in Woolacombe - and this is what they did with it! (Karen's photo.)

Season's Greetings to all my Friends on Flickr. Hope you continue to bring a little colour to my year. Cheers Pat

Unnoticed by me she ran into the sharp end of the tractor's front loader tine. It stuck into her chest about four inches. She didn't even yelp and came with the tractor while I fed the cattle and loaded up two more bales of silage - a round trip of about half a mile. Some time later, Karen noticed that she was lying in an unusual way and looking rather distressed - and we found her injury. Here she is returned from the vet, cleaned up, stitched and recovering from a general anasthetic. I am very relieved that she is looking much better the following day...

Teazels.

We have just started the season's milking. I always enjoy the display made by the wash-down water splashing into the collecting jar in the sunlight. Co-inciding with the start-up of milking the sheep, an article about us has appeared in today's "Weekend Telegraph"! www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2006/04/29/... Empires come rather small these days!

Dating from c1855 at the time of the road build here the original toll-house structure is thought to be the single storey building in the foreground. The large two storey house adjoining is an extension added post 2000.

The Mariners Arms in Braunton

Good to be able to get a curry on a Sunday.