As he sat there with his rather formal hat on, smoking his pipe and I watched the cloud of smoke envelope him, I felt like I was talking to Sherlock Holmes. Went to a local pub for lunch in Dewlish, which was fine, but the roads were very narrow and unnerving. John has had an interesting career....a Cambridge scholar who taught languages in schools and overseas (he speaks Mandarin) before going into the piano business. Intriguingly his piano repair workshop is housed in a disused grain silo on a farm, Surprisingly there were a number of small businesses operating out of farm buildings that are no longer used by the farmer. John made us a cup of coffee....to brew the coffee he used an apparatus that must have begun its life in a science lab. ......we have pictures to prove it. But the coffee was great...better than anything from the US...and from many coffee establishments in Oz. Funky!!!!
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