All is well in the world. After a week spent with her family, Stacey is back and we are the best we have ever been. Poverty is showing its nasty little face so we are addressing this. We are currently at a place called Chittlehamholt which is about 10 miles from Barnstable in Devon. It was decided that we would look for a warden’s position on a campsite somewhere, so I am now trialling as the chef at a 16^th century pub – The Exeter Inn in the aforementioned village.

In  an uncanny series of events we found the job advertisement when looking for wardens positions, went to the village, needed a campsite, there was one two doors down. Needed to know when the pub was open, asked the campsite owner, she worked at the pub and is best friends with the present chef who is leaving, so she contacted her. The husband of the chef phoned to see me that afternoon. He said he would have a word with the chef and I might be able to trial there, within an hour he phoned to ask if I could work that night… to be working in a pub kitchen and finding a campsite (at £8 a night) two doors down was an unexpected end to the day.

Stacey has been down to the Kennels and dog rescue centre looking for work and produced a Pet Portraits poster to display there. It might be that there may be opportunity at the pub also.

We are basically waiting for the owners of the pub to make a decision. This should happen tomorrow. Though, we are still not 100% sure this is what we want to do. The owner is going to present a package to us tomorrow. However, at breakfast this morning I found out there is another chef coming to stay on the campsite tomorrow, who is after the job. The owner apparently has someone interested in leasing the pub. All this will have an affect on us and our immediate future.

In the mean time I have updated my IT CV and will be sending it off later today to recruitment agencies in the area.

My software is complete, but we have been without the internet for nearly two weeks now so I haven’t been able to progress it online. No matter what happens the software will be part of our future. A lot of time and effort has gone into it and it is a fantastic system.

I’ll try and let you know what happens (internet permitting)