Sisters Birthday

We had a gorgeous sunny day for sisters birthday. We picked up Nellie of the Woods and headed for Totnes. Nellie suggested an alternate route which is where the disastrous journey there began! Accident at a little bridge so had to find an alternate route, which my phone decided was through Plymouth on a route I abhor! So had to stop and reprogram once I realised! It was lots of windy, single file traffic lanes and my sister got travel sick! 
We headed for Totnes Museum and the wool craft exhibition - which was laughable! One room and 2-3 exhibits by each crafter! But the museum was an absolute delight! !16th Century house with exhibits of various trades over the centuries. We loved the kitchen with adjacent spice and herb room and we loved the little Physics garden at the back of the house. Once sister had rested on a bench in the sun there she felt herself finally!
We had a lovely Tapas lunch in another sunny courtyard - my new passion is quince jelly, cubes of which were on the manchego cheese! We then pootled round the shops - we all loved the vintage shop crammed with clothes from the Edwardians to present day. Literally crammed - as you walked through the aisle into side areas you literally pushed through the  clothes on either side of you! I was very taken by the woolen swimming costume - such a gorgeous red and style! 
I went to move the car as nellie sat in the churchyard to paint and sister went to the craft shop! I might have sneakily bought a dress I had spotted on the walk up the High street! We met up at the church where nellie was chatting to an old guy full of conspiracy theories from the French revolution onwards! Although she packed her things up to join us he would not stop talking till she finally interrupted him!
Final mooch round the upper streets and then home - fish supper and prosecco for sister and then gorgeous chicken bedtime on the allotment for me! 
P.S. Interesting bit about the rider in extras - It's a ridge tile of clay used on the completion of a building for good luck in the 17th C - before that an animal was sacrificed, then horse skulls were walled up, then wooden carvings of animals were used! Apparently there are some at Cotehele so i shall look next time I am up! 
P.P.S. I would have bought the washing line but the  shop was closed! same shop as the felted mice I had seen on my last visit to Totnes!