Greetings from a wilder and more woolly Devon than most postcards show. We've just come back from a week in Exmouth , where blustery walks were the order of the day. The coastal resorts of Torbay and elsewhere might be more popular nowadays, but Exmouth is Devon's oldest seaside resort and has a nice quirkiness about it. This view is looking across the Exe estuary towards Dawlish , where last week's weather once again halted the coastal trains for a while, though not as dramatically as the storms did earlier this year . Just out of shot to the right is the coastal spit of Dawlish Warren, a national nature reserve as well as a holiday resort. The Exe hosts thousands of overwintering birds, which we had the chance to see when we took a boat trip up the river. We also experienced a little of Transition Town Totnes , where we at last caught up with our dear friends S and L who moved there just over a year ago. It was great to stay with them and also take part in a comm...