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The Newlands Valley walk of 2 January was billed as “An ascent of Dale Head”. OK, I thought, tick off a fell, not too tough, good way to start the year. Of course I should have known better: since John was leading it was as usual rather more than a stroll. After some stress over …
At breakfast this morning, Mr Peacock, Colonel Mustard, and Miss Scarlet found the grizzled remains of the savaged Christmas cake on the kitchen floor. This was obviously not going to be an open and shut case...
The glorious winter weather held on for Xmas...
-7 degrees C; time for a BBQ!
After a lovely meal at the Eagle & Child on Saturday evening (accompanied by not too few beers!) Sunday morning was slow to start...
250 Santas: which one is the Real Santa???
… until I got up and looked out of the window and saw the snow. So I went for a walk with Sabiene instead – here she is at Watersmeet: Of course when we got to Caldbeck we stopped for tea and cake at the Old Smithy Cafe, but the cake tasted much better than …
Its flipping cold out there, especially if you’re a chicken and living in a coop! Today was the girls’ first experience of snow and they weren’t impressed. It took a while to encourage them out and when i did they huddled in a small mass of feathers. To cheer them up a bit I rushed …
