Congratulations if you've made it to Tiverton by train, the station at Tiverton Parkway is five miles away so it's a surprise to find that Ryanair™ aren't running this service - It's Bergamo, not Milan man!

Parkway is a clue and anyone who has ever travelled from Aberdeen to Penzance will be familiar with the name as the stop before Exeter St. Davids. That journey, by the way, takes nearly as long as it does to announce the stations they'll be calling at.

Whatever your way, this is Mid Devon and is where people still work and live and is where the shops sell things that people actually need.

Just a brief stop this, then, to ogle at the ordinary and to eye up the everyday on the way to a holiday hotspot on the coast where we definitely won't be the only grockles in town.

Ignoring any signs, some convenient car parking can be found fortuitously on the wrong side of a bridge. Still, nice views up and even down the River Exe, the site of one of two fords that helped to name that toon.

There are worse spots than St. George's Court for those soon to be housed in a new development of waterside dwellings. This, however, doesn't look to address the well-known issue of affordability, especially for locals, in the county with the developers looking to recoup some of the estimated £1.6m loss.

That loss was incurred by 3Rivers Developments Ltd™, grrr, them greedy developers, eh? Except 3Rivers was set up by and funded by Mid Devon District Council, however that works, and a right old hoo-ha has ensued as to who exactly forks out for this farrago, right taxpayers?

The red flags, though, should have been raised a lot earlier at the establishment of the name - 3Rivers? Just the two here, as we all now know, otherwise the place would be called Triverton?

It's over the river and slightly up past the old town hall to a high street, which is inevitably called Fore Street in these parts.

It's a southwest thing where 'Fore' translates as 'Street' so it's over the river and slightly up past the old town hall to Street Street, which would ordinarily be called High Street where you live.

Last seen in St Ives, Merlin Cinemas is another southwest thing, mainly, and while first impressions of Fore Street are of it being more functional than fun, there's some fun to be had down a nook at the Tivoli.

Not so much for 'in' premieres, though, more to entertain those staying at a random Premier Inn™ just down the road.

An alley leads to Tiverton's Pannier Market, which is brilliant because Bob's just recently got back on the bike and is back in the saddle.

They say you never forget but some of the old swagger and verve has diminished and a pair could be done with to provide some stabilising influence rather than resorting to some tiny rear wheels.

That's a joke, of course, and while the word may have been stolen by bicyclists, that's only because no one is going to the shops with an ox, these days, not even in Mid Devon.

The original Victorian building has been given the modern treatment inside but you'll have to come back tomorrow, Friday, for a full set of stalls outside.

Some knick-knack providers on Bampton Street make for more mooching and it was tempting to ask who was providing the ambient sound of unplugged versions of familiar, '80s bangers on the stereo.

While the word 'stereo' wouldn't have actually been used, the word 'record' or even 'CD' might have and, sadly, not done deliberately so as to make the hipster staff laugh and to use the word 'grandad', right streamers?

As for the good old department store of Banburys, last seen in Barnstaple, they're still piping their background music in by gramophone, right codgers?

Quite a lot of repurposed retail frontage, so far, but for history fans, the 16th-century almshouse and chapel dates from Henry VIII.

Rather more recent is the early 20th-century clock tower, 'donated' by a local benefactor but by benefactor read 'industrialist'.

Put here to ensure that the workers weren't prone to sleeping in, which is normally the reason, the situation is currently reversed with a literal ding-dong between a local B&B owner and the council.

The chimes aren't guaranteeing their guests a good night's sleep, they say. Ah! So that's why Premier Inn™ have sensed an opportunity?

Just a quick visit to Tiverton, like we say, besides the town just about runs out at the clock tower, which is why they've likely sited the big Tesco™s behind.

That might go some way to explaining the lack of activity, not unless all of the other visitors are still snoozing in the B&B or everybody waits until tomorrow when the market will be in full flow, remember.

Meanwhile, back at the car, here's something not seen since World War II, a British Restaurant or rather the Great British Takeaway & Restaurant.

That's handy so, thinking ahead to teatime,... Could I get a Doner Kebab, large, and a Chicken Tikka Masala, thanks very much.

Takeaways don't get any more British than that!