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Ah Will thank you for this. My old stamping ground, South Devon, till we moved to Brittany in 2022. Quite nostalgic. Sounds like you had a good week – nothing like the sea for soothing.

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I’m currently sitting on the rocks, in the South Hams looking out toward Start Point. Delightful.

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Not AT ALL envious... sometimes there are dolphins and seals off Start Point. Thank you for taking me there, for a brief moment.

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Yes there are seals today at Beesands.

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If you get the chance, Will, before you go back, and you haven't done it yet, book a meal at Riverford Field Kitchen near Dartington (and the A38).

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Will I’m loving the process you share, even though I would never be able to do it here. It makes eating cured meats more interesting knowing how they got there. Thank you. Enjoy your holiday.

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Thank you. I do hope someone is tempted to have a try.

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I will definitely be trying this but I need to find a suitable bit of belly! And for the weather to cool down a little more, as I will be hanging it under my house.

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Marvellous.

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What a magnificent holiday you’re having. Elizabeth Pettyjohn is my new hero.

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You can see the house she lived in on the cliffs amongst the ruins… what a woman.

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Lucky you to be able to throw a stone and it land in the water! I swear, every time we have been to a village along the coastline of Devon or Cornwall the tide was always out, even at Western Super Mare and Bristol which are further north. You are a brilliant descriptive writer even when explaining the way to prepare charcuterie. I assume somewhere along the line you have written a novel or two!

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I love the sea here. It comes right up to the rocks whether the tide is in or out on this part of the coast. Thank you for your kind words. I’ve not written anything other than this Substack before as I never thought I could and was rejected a number of times for the first cook book proposal I pitched. Onwards.

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I just re read your response about being knocked back for your cook book proposal, maybe you could look at it in a different way and combine both your amazing way of writing and include recipes. Just a thought.

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Thank you . Yes this is something I would like to do. Just to write a story book about food. At the beginning of this year I started a month by month ‘Story of a Year’ here on Substack which gives one chapter per month. Just as an experiment to see what I end up with after one year, which in theory is a book of my interpretation of a year through my work.

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That is what I was thinking. Give it a go. I’ll be looking it for you

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Don’t give up! as you know write on Substack and have done so for coming up two years, I don’t have an amazing number of followers, but that’s ok, I love what I’m doing by revisiting all the places we have been to over the years. Shortly I will be going in a different direction and talking about my journey through art. As I started of saying in my first draft, I failed art at high school, but you never know what is ahead. If I could attach a photo of my last piece you would understand what I am saying. I worked in publishing and it is a cut throat area, there have been many well known authors who submitted one after the other novels to many many publishers and got knocked back, then all of a sudden someone recognised that they were brilliant! 😊

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