Holiday -ish

We have been away for a week. The main purpose of the time away was to go and see my mother-in-law in the nursing home but we had managed to free up enough time to have a week away. We were hoping to go and see Mum several times but have enough time to have a couple of days for us. It turned out that mil was much happier than the last time we were down there. Her dementia is much worse and that means that she is much happier in herself and not worrying about the things that were not making sense to her as she was last time.. It was a much harder visit for us but good to see that she was much happier in herself and not really in pain any more.

We went with Airbnb again and stayed in a log cabin near the National Trust place, Lydford Gorge. We were on a farm and the place was really lovely. the owners were nice too and we could have chatted for ages but farmers are busy people. They left us a breakfast hamper which was lovely of them. A loaf of nice bread, a block of local butter, a bottle of local milk, a pot of really nice yoghurt, a canister of tea (tea, not tea bags), a canister of ground coffee and a cafetiere and a tin of one of the posher instant coffees.

The only problem we had with the cabin was that the nice lady had provided feather pillows and my husband is allergic to feathers...  She uses feather pillows in her own house but managed to come up with enough polyester stuffed cushions etc to do us the night and we went to Tesco the next day and bought pillows. The duvet was filled with local Devon wool, which was the first time I had come across a woollen duvet. It was much heavier than the polyester one we use at home but was lovely.

We have stayed in a different Airbnb place each time we have been down to the southwest to see mil. They have been lovely places and we have been very well treated and loved the experiences. Next time we go down, I expect we will be Airbnbing again.