OK so I haven't been back to Sparkwell this week, as I intended but I have spent so much time online with my husbands Devon Nelder connections, that you wouldn't believe.

This subject has got me completely engrossed. I find every little bit of history that I uncover so exciting. And even better I uncover a tiny piece of information from Cornwood or Sparkwell and it sends me right back there.

To Cornwood where I have wandered among the headstones in the churchyard. To the Cornwood Inn where I have enjoyed their lovely Sunday Roasts and by no means least Fitzworthy for the Horse Riding.

Just outside Cornwood on the back road to Lee Mill I used to take my older daughter there every weekend for horse riding. She had such a good time. I would drop her off on a Sunday morning then kill a few hours somewhere, and collect her later. Or more often  just leave her for the day and collect her late afternoon. I have stood in the yard in the blazing sun, sheltering beneath a tree waiting for the 'Hack' to return. And I have sat there in my car with the engine running to keep warm, waiting for the horses return.

Sadly this Daughter is now 19 and at University, and the love of horses no longer seems so important. But I have a 9 year old, soon to be 10 who loves anything horsey! Will I once again be hanging out in Riding Stables Car Parks !

I have today established a link between the Cornwood Nelders and the Sparkwell Nelders, their families by todays standards were HUGE!!!!!. And judging by the village cottages, how did they all fit in there?

I am loving my research at the moment, but still have this nagging at the back of my mind that I should be Crafting!. My next event is only 2 weeks away at Tavistock Town Hall on 20th April 2013. And the week after that I finally get to spend some time with my sister who is visiting from New Zealand.