We had former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd in the village yesterday, he and his wife were looking to visit Beatrix Potters Hill Top but it will not be open till next week.
I have some nice pictures of a good long walk we had over the weekend but there seems to be a problem with posting pictures so maybe tomorrow.
There is some awful stormy weather about but up here in Sawrey it has been a pretty decent day.
If you live south of the Watford Gap and want your piano tuned click on the link on the right and my friend Tony will sort you out.

Picture problem sorted, we walked up to Moss Eccles past Wyes Een over the top onto the shores of Windermere back along to the road and up ferry Hill and back into the village.

A busy breakfast as always on a Saturday then just as we planned a walk the heavens opened. So we watched a bit of FA cup football, Man Utd and Chelsea both knocked out by inferior teams, gutted! Meanwhile Liverpool score another 3 goals, 1 will do on Tuesday night.







Between showers I had a walk around the village via the TBA and took a couple of pictures including one of Anthony from the Tower in his newish toy.

Not a great day for pictures today but just in the nick of time these two landed in my inbox, they were taken at the weekend by Derek & Marjorie, it was their 2nd visit to Buckle Yeat,last time was Marjorie's birthday and this time their wedding anniversary.


The power of the wind near Tarn Hows.



Stunning Grasmere.

A cold start to the day and we had a shower of snow overnight which then froze.
We only had a couple in last night so we made an early start and parked at Ambleside and set off on a good walk,it took us from Ambleside and around Loughrigg Fell,past Loughrigg Tarn and then down to Grasmere and along the shores of Rydal water on the Loughrigg Terrace and back to Ambleside,the views were stunning due to the covering of snow on the high fells.


The start of the walk.


Ambleside from the lower slopes of Loughrigg.

Skelwith Bridge with Coniston Old Man in the background.




Windermere.