Author: Laetitia
I had a spare day, so when Jon phoned last night to ask if we were up for anything, I said “Of course!” Pete had to work, but that made it easier because Jon had one spare pair of crampons. I also borrowed Pete’s leash-less ice tools, so we were ready to investigate an ice …
If we'd had our ice axes and crampons we might have done some ice climbing, but those are still in France. Doh!
It was a glorious day, dinner could wait, so we went for a walk. As we were heading out into the wintry snow, we packed supplies… Champagne – check Nibbles – check Extra Christmas presents – check We ventured out from the door and made our way to the highest point – Brunt Knott On …
And snow it did. And then it snowed some more…. So we stayed at home and fed the birds.
It was raining this morning, so we stayed in bed. But Saturday Kitchen was getting boring, so eventually we emerged. It was still raining. A latte and a mince pie later, we decided we would trust the forecast – a brighter afternoon – and we headed to Borrowdale for a few hours on the mountain …
When we woke up this morning it wasn’t raining. We stayed in bed for a bit , watched Andrew Marr, a cartoon or two, and it still wasn’t raining. In fact, by midday, there was blue sky and sunshine. There was only one thing we could do – go out! We decided on a local …
Not that we've had 39 wig parties before....
It was raining heavily this morning, the birds were splashing in the bird bath and munching on peanuts, and it felt like a perfectly lazy day. I went back to bed. An hour later, I noticed the sky had turned blue...
Saturday dawned and there was a little mist hanging in the valley. The mist soon cleared and suddenly we had a glorious day for climbing...
