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Great Expectations

February 16, 2020by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

The last four weeks have been busier than ever. We bought a new house that needed attention. New windows and doors, a new kitchen and a boiler, fireplace to remove, […]

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Living, Living in Devon, Wild swimming

Things that happen in a small village

April 29, 2018by Canny Marshall 2 Comments

I’ve lived in rural places before, just a bit out of the village, certainly isolated. But for the last 20 years I’ve been a city dweller, which has its benefits, […]

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Living, Living in Devon, village life

Spoilers in the Sea

October 22, 2017by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

I’ve always been tempted by the sea. To look at it, to walk by it and to feel it. Being a kid of the 70’s and 80’s I’ve been subject […]

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The Wild Side…

July 9, 2017by Canny Marshall 2 Comments

I’d decided that 2017 was the year of ‘getting in, or being on the water’. Last year I thought about wild swimming a lot. I blogged about it too, so […]

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Living in Devon

A nice day out. A throwback story

March 28, 2017by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

Today reminded me of my life a few years ago. Watching a mum on the bus heading into town I was transported back. Back to a time when I had […]

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On being a virtual wild swimmer…

May 1, 2016by Canny Marshall 11 Comments

I’ve always been interested in wild swimming (but in those days it wasn’t called anything as grand) as a child I’d get in the sea, a freezing Lakeland stream and […]

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New things to appreciate…

December 23, 2015by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

We have been living in the country now, in deepest darkest Devon, for over a year. This time last year we were trying to figure out how things worked and what the new normal was…

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Crystal Tipps and the Tiny Tent

August 23, 2015by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

We haven’t managed to get a family holiday this year. We are both working full time and amusing the boys in-between, with a bit of help from a child-minder, holiday […]

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Not on the list…

May 9, 2015by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

Not that I’m ever one to jump on the band wagon, who am I kidding, I am completely one for jumping on the band wagon and following whatever trend is […]

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Rolling through the seasons…

May 2, 2015by Canny Marshall Leave a comment

We are 6 months into our adventure. That makes it sound like deepest darkest Peru, it’s not, it’s Devon. Mind sometimes it does feel like a foreign place. Folks said […]

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