This is great. That's an interesting observation about the North -South humour divkde, I never thought about it that way but you're right. Lovely part of the world Croyde. I washed up for one day in a Woolacombe hotel once.
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I've never been so poor that I had to wash up for a day for my breakfast. My heart goes out to you ;) It wasn't the Narracott Grand Hotel by any chance was it?
Might have been. I can't remember the name, 23 years ago now. It was a huge hotel.
I fancied working in Devon one summer, and saw an ad in the job centre. I'd been unemployed 2 years tgen, after finishing my degree.
I just couldn't hack it, hardest days work i have ever done. So I threw in my tea tea -towel.
It must have been the Narracott Grand. It's the only large hotel there. Large monstrosity looking out over the sea. I worked there myself as a waiter at the end of the 92 summer season. It was the hardest job I'd ever done too. I managed to last 9 days before I threw in the towel and headed back to Wigan. The man who worked the wash up was a bloke called Barry and he was from Leigh. I watched him doing the work of 4 people on that wash up. I felt sorry for him. He spent almost all of the daylight hours in that horrid sweaty basement, surrounded by mostly scouse drug abusers that he tried to ignore. I never got to socialise with him because the pubs were closed by the time he'd finished his shifts. You did the right thing probably.
Yes. Definitely, the same place. Weird we both ended up there. I arrived out of season too, so it was dead. Been on holidays in Croyde and Saunton in recent years love it.
I am enjoying the Passio podcast by the way. On episode 6 and he is into Magick and Will versus will. I researched this very topic for my latest book, so there's an interesting synchronicity. Fascinated to find out where he goes with this, as he is clearly building foundations.
It is a lovely place....it's not the place it was in the early 90s. More developed now but still lovely.
He is definitely laying foundations. He does speak most weeks about the importance of taking in the info in the correct chronological order. I've still not finished the series. I'm up to about 130. The first 90 - 100 episodes point out what is happening and from then on he turns more towards a solutions oriented approach and tackles the issues around what we can do about it.