Devon in the sticks - mid to north. Anybody out there?

[SuePurblybiltByElves]

See I know there must be Mnetters around but it seems to be a NM Mafia controlled area . I'm about 30 mins north of Okehampton, equal distances from Exeter and Barnstaple. Middle of nowhere but surrounded by villages full of mummies. Some of you must be Mnetters surely?

I do this thread once a year or so and forget it when it drops out of active so do PM me if you're local and willing to out yourself

This is a busy thread. There are worse towns than the hated one!

Purple - it's OK, I do remember what it was now just annoyed that I forgot!

live in the middle of dartmoor... does that count as mid? definately cant get away with north devon lol but i fear if i start a mid and south devon thread i will be the only one on it!

I think we embrace all comers here . Middle of Dartmoor = lovely.

Would it be a bit sad of me to suggest a meet up already? We could go to hated town and all wear a red rose or something to recognize each other?

As you can see, I have no life

Yep, join in, we need as many people as possible, see if we can keep this going!
We did have a flurry when everyone was guessing where everyone else lives.

There are definitely towns I dislike a lot more that T! And there is a lot to do once your not a teenager... Especially, with young children.

Middle of Dartmoor definitely counts I think!

surely most towns are much the same, with their good & not-so-good bits.

I'm too late to join the flurry-ing, aren't I.

Well... HELLO-O-o-o

Hellooo! Yes you are right with the good and bad, tis the fashion to dislike T you know. Anyway with this thread, your one post alone is a flurry!

UniS flurrys past hastily. bumping and marking.

Edge of Dartmoor here.

Hey Devon - what's our temp records? DH says it's -2.5 in both Exeter & Oke tonight.

And can we have snow-watch on this weekend too please?!

snow on north dartmoor hill tops this week. at village level this morning but mostly gone tonight.

Snow in mid devon this morning until 1pm ish all melted now, can see the snow on the hills though. No idea what the temp is! I almost keeled over seeing this in Active threads!

No snow in Okehampton yet (although a very light dusting on Saturday morning that lasted for about 20 minutes). Snow up on Dartmoor though, beautiful!

Apparently it was -8 in Okehampton at some point which was the coldest point in the westcountry but someone else told me that, haven't had it confirmed.

the car said -8 on Friday morning Alma.

Just the usual cold & damp now. The rest of the country must be making it up!

All thawed here (between Oke and Torrington). And I was hoping for a snow day tomorrow.

I'm still hoping for some decent snowfall. Don't think it's happening this year though :(

UnderwaterBasketWeaving - good to know what I heard was right! I was telling my Dad that it was hideously cold and he was saying 'ooooh no, you're just used to the mild winter, it's not that bad', I feel vindicated now I know just how cold it was. He's only in Winkleigh, obviously it was balmy up there!

Hellooo!

Another Junction 27 resident here. Good to see that there is life in Mid Devon after all!

I think that my DCs are older than all of yours though making me ancient compared with you. DCs 1 and 2 go to school in Kirsty's village.

Whenever I've casually dropped MN into RL conversations (nothing revealing, just a recipe or somesuch) I'm met with such a complete blank that I thought I was the only one around.

Off to chuck another log on the fire...

Hello Cake this is probably the quietest section on MN, second only to Dadsnet. [Wink] We are clocking up members in this area now! How exciting!

So a clump in Junction 27 and Okehampton, I wonder what it means? The Cath Kidston quotient is higher? Hehe

Hi Cake :)

No-one twitches or offers me pombears when I mention MN around Okehampton so not sure if anyone else uses it much. Sure some people must though.

now you see, I use MN but I don't use okehampton much.... live about 4 miles away and go there once a week to get shopping/ take DS to swim class. now he's at school I use the mobile library more than Oke.

Which is why I've never twitched when yo've offered me pom bear.

If yours is at school then he must be a bit older than mine so possibly never met you, I took quite a while to start going to toddler/baby groups when my first was born so I don't really know many people with older children!

DS1 is 16, DS2 nearly 14 and DD nearly 10. See, I told you I was ancient!

Toddler groups are firmly in the dim & distant now...

anything interesting ( quiz, barn dance, decent band playing?) going on in village halls nearish oke on saturday evening. We have baby sitter booked but now find the Belstone pudding club is fully booked.

I should have bought my tickets and THEN found baby sitter I guess, but I was being a bit rubbish at planning.

Oh I missed all of this talk of snow in this thread. I went to London the weekend before last and it was proper snow, heard it snowed here in Devon but it apparently arrived after we departed for London and by the time we got as far as Reading services there was no snow at all in Devon. I'm starting to think it was made up There was me hoping for a few snow days off of work!

Hope you manage to find something to do on Saturday night UniS!

Hellooooo! Someone should dust in here, cobwebs everywhere.