North Devon – Grockle Hell

North Devon - Grockle Hell

Grockles; good for North Devon business but terribly bad for the digestion and the nerves. October never comes soon enough. First, the boring stuff: North Devon, England, is mainly rural seaside, with its district council sitting (or lounging about) in Barnstaple. North Devon District towns and villages include Westward Ho!, Braunton, Combe Martin, Ilfracombe, Instow, […]

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If you don’t have a kid by 20, are you really from Torquay?

Living in Torquay, Devon

Torquay is the place where the **** culture originated. If you don’t have a kid by the age of 20, are you really from Torquay? The average day consists of waking up trying to figure out who the girl next to you is, noticing her school uniform so decide to leave ASAP. Find your other […]

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Braunton posh!? I don’t think so!

Living in Braunton, Devon

Braunton at first glance, would appear to be the nicest, friendliest village in Devon. However, after living here I can tell you it’s all bullshit! The middle class parents that own their own houses don’t seem to care about the entitled little ***** they’ve brought into this world, while letting them out all night to […]

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Ilfracombe: Tips for the Terminally Clueless

Living in Ilfracombe, Devon

Here for the very first time in public are the mysterious Big Six tips, those elusive six golden rules for the terminally clueless. Tried and tested in Ilfracombe since 1975, or something. You’ll have to keep this quiet because it’s a secret. What is?… Ilfracombe that’s what…Where’s that? – North Devon, you silly. “It’s a […]

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Combe Martin, North Devon – The CamberWickerMan Green Village

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

It’s an unfortunate well-known fact that the further north you go in Devon, the uglier and weirder the people. People don’t usually move to dark and windswept Combe Martin, they’re sent or abducted to this village of strange rites and pagan rituals on the edge of Exmoor. This is the racist alcoholics’ graveyard with a […]

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Ilfracombe – The Dump in North Devon

Living in Ilfracombe, Devon

Ilfracombe, population about 12,000 (OS grid reference SS516474) is a dump in North Devon, England. It is one part ****, one part decent, and one part alcoholic holidaymakers in Wetherspoons during the holidays. If you want a southwest England holiday and to see genuine Devonians in this town once second only to Brighton in its […]

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Combe Martin: The zit on the **** of England

Living in Combe Martin, North Devon

If the world had piles, they’d be in Combe Martin, North Devon. I live here, but you can’t call it life. The good old British transport network, the seaside, shopping, and clothes, are old hat and cliché. You don’t need these things and Combe Martin hasn’t got them. What you need is people from Birmingham, […]

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Combe Martin, has been called “Trumpton Vasey” by visitors

Living in Combe Martin

My family lives there in Combe Martin. I wouldn’t. Combe Martin is an acquired taste and an elephant’s graveyard; it can be “the most depressing, hopeless and generally futureless place on earth” not least between October and May each year, when it’s dark and stormy, wet, depressing and deserted. My relatives would perish without a […]

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Great Torrington, situated in bumble-f*ck nowhere in North Devon

Living in Great Torrington, Devon

What is there to say about this small town situated in bumble-f*ck nowhere in the heart of North Devon? Not a lot to be realistic, from a town that once fought off Tesco’s (An “achievement” the still they are proud of 10 years down the line, especially now they’ve just fought off a Waitrose) but […]

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Axminster – Blink and you’ll miss it

Living in Axminster

Axminster is one of those small towns that most people drive through but rarely stop in, in fact ever since the bypass was built you dont even need to drive through it, you can just avoid it completely! Axminster used to be famous for one thing, carpets. Most people would know what an Axminster carpet […]

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Landkey North Devon: best to pry it loose and let it float away, to France preferably

Living in Lanky, Devon

If you picture the South West as a full functioning body then Landkey must be a hemorrhoid: it is annoying, and best removed as soon as possible. The landscape is quite nice as is the proximity to the sea but the people living, or rather waiting to die, in Landkey make it a truly miserable […]

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Combe Martin is definitely not interesting, lively or quaint in any way

Living in Combe Martin, Devon

I’m Bob and I live here. Combe Martin is definitely not interesting, lively or quaint. In any way. It’s dark, humourless, miserable and depressing. Those who don’t live in lorries in the fields are “Masons you know”; up their own backside much?. The village is blessed with a lovely Sweet Shop and Bakery but no […]

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