It’s all go in Clovelly now until the end of August…

On Sunday 25th May, Clovelly will be holding its annual Seaweed Festival.

The festival celebrates seaweed’s delicious flavours, vibrant colours, and remarkable health benefits. Packed with minerals, fibre, and an excellent natural alternative to salt, seaweed is a nutritional powerhouse in all its varied textures, shapes, and sizes.

We both love living in such a special place. It’s not like a ‘normal’ village. There is a great mixture of people here. Some families have been here for years, others born here and are still here. There are also people even newer than us and lots of different people with interesting stories. Quite a few creative people too which is marvellous.

Also, what surprises people, and surprised me, is there are also a lot of kids in the village. What a fantastic place to grow up.

We’ve only lived here since August but I love chatting to people and telling them what it’s like.

So, at Easter 2025 on a dull and damp Good Friday, we opened our shop.

It was never our intention to open a shop, but was always a seemingly unachievable dream. That all changed when we moved to Clovelly in August 2024.

I really didn’t want to work for anyone else if that could be avoided, having done it for my entire life, but was really struggling to decide what, if anything, I could do. I looked for work from home jobs and thought I stood a good chance with one of them which would have been great for me (and them) but sadly it was not meant to be.