Mr Life's photos of Devon and Cornwall including the Cobb and also quite a lot of transport-related items. Also wildlife and lunch.

Mr Life speaks


A guest post! Wow! What an honour.

Umm, what to say?

“Just make it mainly pictures,” says Daughter 2.

Would that be all 400 then? Maybe not.

Maybe not even all of my 86 selected photos highlighting what we did and saw?

Highlights of the highlights then!







Launceston Steam Railway – both steam and narrow gauge, so the best kind, of course.


Falmouth – where we “parked and floated”. Many towns have “park and ride” facilities – car parks on the outskirts with buses to run people into town – but this had a ferry instead.

One of Pencarrow House’s peacocks.

St Ives harbour with the tide out.

Isabelle’s picture doesn’t show off the Bodmin & Wenford locomotive in all its glory because it’s hidden by some fat chap.

Padstow harbour with the tide in, too many people around and the rain about to start.

I like cats as well! This one looks after the garden at Castle Drogo –

and some garden it is, too!

The church in Colyton, the nearest village to our Devon cottage.

Seaton Tramway at Colyton – this is a replica of a Glasgow tram.

Lyme Regis harbour and the Cobb.

The Cobb again. Think of Jane Austen’s Louisa Musgrove and the French Lieutenant’s woman. It was a trifle breezy.

Beer Heights Light Railway at Pecorama, Beer. A miniature railway based on my favourite narrow gauge railways.

The stream flowing down the main street in Beer – water, not beer, but pretty flowers. We bought a very expensive painting in a gallery just left of this stream.

One of Sidmouth town council’s many floral displays.

The museum at Budleigh Salterton. We took so long to be served our (excellent) lunch in The Cosy Teapot that we didn’t have time to visit this museum, but admired the quaint exterior.

(Bows and walks off.)