title Grandma J's and a Day on the Beach, Spreyton and Exmouth, Devon - 13th April 2017 intro Partly as it's Easter, and also because it's nearly Mother's 70th birthday, we head down for a visit to Spreyton, near Okehampton on the north edge of Dartmoor in Devon - a handy side-effect of which is the chance to visit the most-awesome Tom Cobley Tavern in the middle of the village. There's also an easter-egg hunt arranged by the village shop, but first there's the obligatory stop-over at a Premier Inn, this time at Taunton East. The next day, we take Grandma J over to meet Sis and Matt on the beach at Exmouth, where as well as sandcastles and ice creams, we get a sandwich stolen by a seagull. imgc5612 Time for breakfast at Taunton East Premier Inn imgc5613 A stripey cat follows us for a bit imgc5615 The stripey cat wants to join in imgc5617 Harry at breakfast imgc5618 Isobel and Harry do breakfast imgc5619 Fred plays with Lego imgc5621 Fred's made a thing imgc5622 Fred in the Tom Cobley imgc5623 Fred's in the zone checking the specials menu imgc5624 Harry slurps lemonade imgc5625 Harry admires his reflection imgc5628 Harry does some colouring imgc5629 Harry roams around in the Cobley's restaurant imgc5631 Harry and Isobel imgc5635 Isobel reads a bed-time story imgp8186 Mother has yellowhammers in her garden imgp8187 Thatched cottages in Spreyton imgp8189 Spreyton's "High Street" is nicely car free imgp8191 Harry in the community playground imgp8193 On the swings imgp8194 Isobel has a swing imgp8197 Isobel swings the boys around imgp8201 The boys are upside-down imgp8202 We start on the village shop's Easter-egg hunt imgp8205 At the village road sign imgp8208 This car has seen better days imgp8209 The boys write down some more answers imgp8210 Isobel by the school's mosaic imgp8212 "How many legs are on the Tom Cobley's sign" imgp8214 The Tom Cobley's Widdecombe Fair sign imgp8216 Another clue is answered imgp8217 The tree-lined path to the church imgp8221 Old-school electricals in the church imgp8223 An old font leans against a wall imgp8224 Nice modern stained glass window imgp8226 Light plays through a leaded window imgp8227 The boys do more quiz questions imgp8228 Fred on a church path imgp8229 Sis in Mother's lounge imgp8231 Sis looks out to sea imgp8232 Fred and Harry on the beach at Exmouth imgp8238 A kite is flown imgp8240 Mother waves imgp8243 The seafront at Exmouth imgp8244 The beach near the lifeboat station imgp8249 Matt and Mother imgp8251 A bit of burnt wood on the beach imgp8253 The Exmouth lifeboat imgp8255 Matt reels in a kite imgp8258 The sandwich-stealing seagull flies around imgp8261 An old dude scoots by imgp8269 A kite-surfer scoots by imgp8274 The town of Exmouth imgp8287 An airborne kite surfer imgp8309 Matt and the boys are contructing imgp8313 Matt builds sandcastles imgp8315 The finished sandcastle imgp8316 Harry by the sand castle imgp8320 Isobel on the beach imgp8324 We visit the most epic ice-cream shop imgp8328 Swan-like Pedalos are still popular imgp8329 Fred finds a tree in the dunes imgp8333 A bingo parlour imgp8334 Old-school amusements arcade imgp8335 An old fairground hammer-strength machine imgp8339 Sis and Isobel discuss topics of the day imgp8344 Beach huts imgp8350 Mother's semi-tame pheasant imgp8355 Isobel considers a Ma'ida take-away imgp8356 Isobel gets something from the kitchen