title A Short Trip to Spreyton, Devon - 18th January 2020 intro Nosher heads down to Devon, on a 700-mile round trip, for a day and a half to help Sis sort some paperwork out. On the upside, it means a chance to spend two whole evenings in the Tom Cobley - the best pub in Devon. It's also an opportunity to give the A303 a second (or third) chance, after the last time we tried it led to an eight-hour epic because half of it was closed. imgp8774 The bar of the Tom Cobley, with Roger and Lewis imgp8776 There's a memorial to Daz, the Tom Cobley Cat imgp8777 The Cobley, by night imgp8778 Mother's fridge is a little on the empty side imgp8782 Nosher plays an actual cassette tape on the stereo imgp8783 The empty kitchen imgp8785 A whole life in boxes imgp8789 A view of farm buildings in the valley imgp8792 A Devon view, on the walk up to the village shop imgp8794 A couple of cyclists stomp up the hill imgp8795 The main village street imgp8797 A view towards Dartmoor imgp8799 Balloons folornly tied to a pole stay imgp8801 Another Devon field imgp8805 Three contrails over Chapel Park imgp8807 Doug the Dog looks a bit sad in his box imgp8808 Sis goes through some paperwork imgp8810 One of Nosher's schoolboy pictures, from 1981 imgp8816 A convertible is a temporary skip at Okehampton imgp8827 Sunset over the side field imgp8828 Wispy clouds in the dusk imgp8831 More paperwork sorting imgp8833 Red sky at night imgp8836 Roger at the bar imgp8839 Matt and Sis in the Cobley imgp8840 Roger's Grumpy Old Men's Club sign imgp8842 Glasses hang from the top of the bar imgp8843 Roger potters about imgp8848 A yard of ale hangs from the ceiling imgp8854 The Tom Cobley bogs imgp8855 Nosher gets to be almost the last one in imgp8860 The mean streets of Spreyton, by night imgp8862 There's a frosty start the next day imgp8865 Mike's old Beemer is back home for a bit imgp8869 A view over Devon, and possibly Smeatharpe imgp8871 A derelict café between Newcott and Marsh imgp8872 The derelict café and tea rooms on the A303 imgp8876 The old café and tea rooms in the Blackdown Hills imgp8877 More rural graffiti imgp8878 Yellow and pink graffiti imgp8881 Down on the M3 at Fleet Services imgp8882 Traffic streams up and down on the M3 imgp8883 The link bridge has had a lime-green paint job imgp8886 The cold and damp link bridge over the M3 imgp8887 The insanity of modern life imgp8893 It's all a bit grim over the M3