Todays the day, we are open, yesterday’s snow has gone, the rain has gone (keep everything crossed it stays away all weekend, it’s supposed to!)
We cannot wait to see all of our regulars and meet lots of new people, the team will be different this year with mum passing suddenly in January dad is taking time out for himself, you’ll see him here and there, but Tim and I will be here (admittedly I will have to take some time out over the next few months, I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer 2 weeks ago, follow my story over @homewiththewhites I won’t be posting much of it on here)
At the end of last year Pat our warden moved on to a new job after 2 years with us but we have found 2 lovely new wardens to help us out, they have been with us since the beginning of March helping us get ready and have been amazing.
Let’s make the 2024 camping season amazing because as you have read the start of this year has not been the best and we’re only in month 3!!!
Errrrrrrr what!!!!! Check your calendars this is not an April fools!!!! We have snow!!!!! Yesterday I joked that it was the coldest day we’ve had all winter but I was not expecting to wake up to this!!! I was up super early getting pics because in all honesty it’s going to melt quick, it had all ready started melting by the time I started walking back home.
We are opening tomorrow this is not scheduled into our plans!!!
Love my morning walks, we do have a dog walk area on site but if you cross the road from ours and take the footpath in 2 minutes you get views like this. Best place to watch the sunset and see the deer’s!!
All hands on deck today with potentially the last dry day before we open, fuelled by chip butties, Tim was fixing roofs, dad and I were on the mowers, Esme and my niece were planting trees and litter picking and our new wardens, were painting the buildings.
We had a lovely walk around Morte point yesterday, and we saw seals, 🦭 I love seeing these little chubby guys bobbing about in the sea. You can guarantee every time you walk around there you will see seals.
We also found a new path that we have never walked and got amazing views of Woolacombe.
If I’m in Barnstaple there is one place I go for food and that’s @charliescafe_barnstaple if you’ve seen my stories, you will already know that!
Charlie’s is 100% gluten free, all the cakes, bread, biscuits, are all made in their little kitchen they have a great range on their menu from full English breakfast to vegan pesto toasties, pancakes and their cakes, have I mentioned their cakes?! If you’re gluten free you will know how hard it is to find bread and cakes that don’t taste like cardboard and with every bite you need a slurp of water!! Or even find something on a menu that you can eat that is not a salad or chips! But not here, this little cafe is dedicated to all your gf needs, and you don’t need to worry about contamination.
If you’re in Barnstaple and need a quick lunch, sneaky treat then make sure you pop in, whether you’re gf or not, you honestly wouldn’t know it’s gf and the staff are amazing, so friendly and chatty. And if you do go remember me and bring me a cake!!! I’ll take any I’m not fussy!!!
Well I have lots of empty shelves to fill , but if you know me, I am quite capable of doing that!
Now to get everything else sorted, also it’s not just me doing this Tim has had his jobs to do and we have new wardens, who have been working so hard with getting the site ready, they have been chief cleaners, weeders, scrubbers and doing amazing!
Before we start the season we decided as a family to pack up our vans, dogs and kids and go away for an evening to spend some quality time together.
Tintagel is just an hour and 40 minutes from us and it truly is a magical place steeped in history and wildlife, we walked over to see King Arthur’s statue and on the way saw kestrels, seals, bunnies, buzzards and of course seagulls!!! We filled up on pasties and played hangman in the pub, so nice to get the kids off of their devices! We stopped at Bude on the way back to top up on pasties and have a nose at the lookout tower that they have moved further inland brick by brick!!
Tintagel is a place that mum loved so it was lovely to celebrate Mother’s Day there. I hope all you mums got spoilt yesterday, or at least had a day off from cooking!
Finally the fields have dried up enough to get the first cut done, it felt so good to get out and get it done but it was bittersweet because mum would normally be out with me doing this, I know she was watching and laughing every time we had to crawl underneath and unblock them, which was a lot!
We are on the look out for food vans for the season, last year we had a couple on site and they were super popular not just with our campers but also with the locals.
We are looking for someone who serves breakfast, things like baps, not pastries or smoothies we already have that covered, evening meals, happy to have burgers, pizzas, curries, any kind of food.
We do not charge you for being here but wouldn’t mind a meal every now and then!!
Also if there’s anyone with a drinks trailer, our campers are partial to a cocktail or 2!
27 days, just 27 days to go until we reopen!!! Hopefully the next 27 days will be much drier because right now it’s not tents and caravans you will be camping in, it will be dinghies and paddle boats!!!!
Unfortunately we lost my little Bella yesterday, Bella and her sister Poppy were a birthday present from Tim for my 30th! So she had reached the ripe age of 14, which is an amazing for a pig.
She was so full of character and would love a good back scratch and cuddle.
One of our frequently asked questions is, can you see the sea, no you can’t but you can hear it, we are just 3/4 of a mile from the beach.
But what we are surrounded by are fields, fields of green green grass!! You’ll see cows in the fields, sheep, deer in the distance, buzzards, kestrels, sparrow hawks and a billion stars. And if you’re really lucky you’ll see our barn owl!!! 🦉