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The Country Rant

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Something you need to get off your chest? Then get on your soap box and rant away - we're listening. Send rants to info@countrycalling.co.uk

The Grass is Greener

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It took us a long time to swap town for country, years and years of weekend flirting with the West Country - should it be a surfy life in Cornwall or the wilderness of North Devon, would Somerset be more cutting edge than Dorset? - before scuttling back to the better known comforts of our rat infested gangland (Clapham Old Town). When we finally made the leap and bought a slither of paradise on the Wiltshire/Dorset border we thought the rest would follow but life never works out quite how you expect, does it?

The Guest

steven lamb

Random thoughts from the West Country....

The Reluctant Landlady

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Running a B&B was a long way down the bucket list but needs must.....introducing the reluctant landlady

Latest posts

  • The Guest Who Never Arrived….

    Bookings are flying in at the B&B and the Reluctant Landlady is feeling confident. But then comes the guest who never arrives…. Read more

  • Chickens to the Rescue at the B&B

    The Reluctant Landlady doesn’t do pets but the children are desperate and the next door neighbour is using hard selling techniques to offload her unwanted baby guinea pigs.. Read more

  • Regrets? I’ve got a few….

    Some people have a knack of always making the right decisions, others, like me, need some kind of whip-cracking guru in their lives, preferably one with psychic powers.
    Read more

  • My Cornwall

    What does Cornwall mean to you? For our blogger it’s a memory stick of cider and clotted cream and sliding down sand dunes on her stomach. Wild parties on top of a cliff, an Ibiza hot summer at Porthcurno, buckets and spades in the shadow of Caerhays Castle Read more