Oh dear - over a month has passed since my last post. And I've visited lots of places from Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh (wonderful weather, great people, superb food - shame about the location).......

to the rural village of Wedmore (Somerset) (home to an annual beer festival) - where we stayed at the absolutely dreadful George Inn. Little did we know that it was a pub from hell, with ancient, dirty rooms, smelly loud resident dogs (with accompanying flies) and hopeless (if not well-meaning) staff. The only saving grace was the cold cider which was.....green ('nuff said).

As if that wasn't enough, the Sexey's Arms (the reason for our visit) turned out not to be in the actual village of Wedmore (as the guide said) but in the next village, Blackford about 2 miles away! Luckily the rain let up for long enough for us to walk there. Unluckily, we discovered to our horror that the pub is now under new ownership: the resident French chef and landlord had left. In his place were people who didn't know what they were doing at all (e.g. when we asked for another bottle of red it was served in our ice-bucket with a "there you go" passing comment)!! and served ham egg and chips as if it was some kind of speciality!! terrible service, horrible atmosphere (we were surrounded by Native American headgear - tat) and awful food. Michelin have already been sent an appropriate email!!

However - we did manage to find an excellent food shop in Cheddar called Lillypool Cheese and Cider. They stock that marvellous Colston Bassett stilton that we discovered on our Winteringham experience, and even have a camp-site near-by if you overdo the scrumpy tasting! Excellent!

The good news is I'm published (again)!!! In the Post-16 Educator.

Now, on with the final assignment...soon it will all be over for another academic year...