Another cold day, when will it warm up!!





We had a big turnout this morning and a steady day in the tearooms.
When we finished we had a quick walk up to the tarns and had a chat with Paul, Jayne and the kids on the way down, Fly the dog jumped up and planted some cow muck paw prints on my fleece so I had to discard it to go into the Tower for a beer.


Silence of the lambs, these lambs know how to get out and how to get back.

We went to Ulverston and Barrow yesterday, another funeral I'm afraid, an auntie of mine who has been ill for a while passed away last week.
On the way we saw the damage caused to Hoad Hill by a grass fire on Thursday and when we got to Barrow we saw the new statue of former Liverpool and England football captain Emlyn Hughes, Emlyn was from Barrow and they have built a new office complex in the town and named it after him.

Today it was cold again and it will remain that way as long as the wind is from the north east, Mr McGregor who sits on the bench outside Buckle Yeat raising money had a very poor day, I think it was to cold for people to dawdle taking pictures.

It will have been a busy day in Hawkshead today, there was a 15K trail run with lots of entries,also on the recreation ground there has been entertainment and refreshments.
An ambulance went howling through Near Sawrey towards Far Sawrey this afternoon, a section of the 15k the trail run passed through Far Sawrey and we wondered if there had been a problem with a competitor

A steady day in the tea rooms, nobody was keen to sit out in the garden and no wonder with cold wind blowing.



Some daffs in the back garden at Buckle Yeat, Denis is in the process of planting this part of the garden with herbaceous plants, I think he has been watching Monty Don.



We had a brisk walk up to Moss Eccles and I took this picture of Esthwaite Water from the top of Coopers Lane, the wind chill around Moss Eccles made it feel even colder.

Again the weather remains changeable to say the least, we had a frost first thing then hail rain wind and then this afternoon the sun broke through and we had a pleasant sunny afternoon and early evening.



This is Buckle Yeat garden this morning.

The ospreys are back at Dodds Wood near Bassenthwaite, they have a great web site and web cam, just click on the link on the right of this page.

It has been a sunny day and looking at the football in Liverpool and Manchester on the news tonight it looks like we had the best of the weather.
We had a chat with Matthew this morning via the medium of internet telephony ie Skype, it is a great system and best of all it is free!


Calves having a lie in this morning.




A full house and all guests checked by early evening so we had a walk up to Moss Eccles Tarn.