St Peters on this frosty morning and I headed off to Kendal for the last ingredients needed for the New Year party.
The New Year gang all arrived this afternoon and we met them tonight in the Tower Bank Arms for a drink early on.





Three pictures from the ferry landing point.

Another fantastic sunny day, Matthew headed back down to Leicester this afternoon and rang about 5pm to say he arrived safe and well, meanwhile we had a good long walk, down the Dub through by Cunsey and down to the lake shore before heading back along by Rawlinson Nab.


The sun never shines on this frosty lane.

Another cold frosty morning and I took these first two pictures early this morning on the way to work.



We had guests arriving today and the footy was on so I volunteered to wait for them and Helen went for a walk with her mum Margaret. The footy was brilliant and Helen had a good walk so we were all happy.




These two pictures are of Moss Eccles.

Another view of Moss Eccles.


Wise Een Tarn.



Boathouse on Wise Een.


Hawkshead.

Boxing day and a dreary start to the morning,but the forecast was good and we really had to get out for a good long walk.
Matthews mate Tangwyn came over early and the two of them headed over to Coniston and climbed Dow Crag then traversed the ridge to the Old Man of Coniston and then back down into the village, we had another plan and drove to Grasmere and headed up Helm Crag aka "The Lion and the Lamb".We then came down into the valley before climbing up to Easdale Tarn. The sun came out and there was lots of walkers out and about.

Sour Milk Ghyll taken from half way up Helm Crag.

Sour Milk Ghyll running down from Easdale Tarn, its easy to see how it gets its name.


Easdale Tarn

A dreary day but no wind, rain, snow or frost, as about good as it gets at this time of year.
We had a quick walk up to Moss Eccles this afternoon




Merry Christmas to all the blog watchers from us all at Buckle Yeat.


The kids at the farm are taking no chances!

At last a dry day with a bit of sunshine, Matthew arrived home last night for the Christmas holiday so we set off this morning and parked at Brathy bridge, we then headed up to the top of Loughrigg fell and the down the other side before making our way back along Loughrigg Terrace overlooking Grasmere and Rydal Water.

We have had a visit from the carol singers tonight and they were in exceptionally good voice.


River Brathy



A view of Windermere from half way up Loughrigg.

Rydal Water

A view of Dunmail Raise from off Loughrigg Terrace with Grasmere in the foreground.

Today is the anniversary of the passing of Beatrix Potter she died on the 22nd December 1943.

A quiet week in the village, we are closed for decorating and refurbishing, new carpets arrive tomorrow. The plumber will be here at 8am as well to change a radiator in one of the bedrooms. We will then be all set for the New Year crew. We have been in Kendal this afternoon getting a few essentials. I forgot to take the camera so no pics today.



My computer guru sent me this video re the cold weather we have had lately

A misty start but at last no rain no snow and no frost.
We had a walk this afternoon up to Moss Eccles, the tarn still has a covering of thin ice showing how cold it has been.
On the way down we met Paul from the farm who was telling us how his 3 children had been excited about the visit of father Christmas yesterday to the village hall party, his middle girl had noticed Santa arrived and left in my car and came to the conclusion he was staying at Buckle Yeat, of course he was that's the magic of Christmas.




We found a tree heaving in holly berries, the birds have not found it yet.



Esthwaite Water taken from above "Coopers"

A lot milder this morning but the downside is heavy rain all day.
the weather did not stop Father Christmas as he made a visit to Braithwaite Hall in Far Sawrey to give out presents to the local kids on behalf of the Sawrey & Cunsey children's committee

Santa arrives at the Hall.

We packed up some sweets for Santa to give out with the presents and popped some noisy party blowers in amongst the sweets, boy did they go down well, just listen to the end of this video

Brr still cold and frosty, snow forecast for tomorrow, lets hope not.
We headed off to Kendal yesterday and took these pictures from the ferry landing, the views are stunning.
We gathered a few last bits to don up the rooms at Buckle Yeat, it is all coming together well, 3 rooms decorated to date and new carpets coming on Thursday.







Crazy problems with my internet supplier, I have decided to change providers asap.

At last a thaw, the snow and ice has gone and you can actually keep your feet on the car park.
Still decorating today so no walks and no photos, we will try to get out mid week.
It was mum-in-law Margarets birthday yesterday so we took her and Denis out for lunch to the Tower Bank Arms.

Busy busy busy today, stripping wallpaper in another of the bedrooms, we plan to paper it on Monday, also today Helen and her mum did most of the festive decorations and we put up the outside tree and I rigged up the lights.

Sister-in-Law Margaret sent us this great recipe for a christmas cake which I would like to share with everyone.

You'll need the following
1 Cup of water
1 Cup of sugar
4 large brown eggs
2 cups of dried fruit
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
Nuts
1 bottle of whiskey

Sample the whiskey to check for quality. Take a large bowl. Check the whiskey again. To be sure its the highest quality, pour one level cup a drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and beat again. Make sure the whiskey is still OK. Cry another tup. Tune up the mixer. Beat two leggs and add the bowl and chuck in the fried druit. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it goose with a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey to check tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt, Or something, Who cares? Check the whiskey. Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon the sugar or somfin. Whatever you can find. Greese the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window. Check the whiskey again and go to bed!!!!!!!!!!

As forecast the snow arrived overnight, quite a lot of snow and it settled on icy roads so driving was a bit on dodgy side.
The boiler service man had to cancel due to the weather and has rescheduled for the New Year.
As the morning went on the roads conditions eased slightly and as we had to go to Kendal we braved it via Newby Bridge, between Kendal and Newby Bridge there was little or no snow but by the time we reached Kendal we ran back into the bad conditions.

A cool customer this morning on the bench at the Tower Bank Arms.

It does not get any warmer and we have heavy snow forecast overnight.

This morning me and Helen (I know it should be Helen and I but I always think it sounds so wrong) went to buy the Christmas tree for outside Buckle Yeat, on the way we "collected" some rock salt to try and convert the ice rink at Buckle Yeat back into a car park.

A hard frost overnight again, this picture was taken from our bedroom window early this morning.
We have had a productive day on the decorating front and finished papering the downstairs room.