Backtracking to Scotland & the Lake District

The long awaited trip to a very wet North, not ventured into since teanage years. 4 nights in the lake Driatrict, stayed in youth hostels at Ambleside & Keswick. two very different hostels, Ambleside was cheery but Keswick a bit gloomy, never mind spent all day travelling round the area.
Plotted a route to see stone circles mostly also taking in anything that looked interesting on the way.

Swindale circle, on top of a hill, lonley, windswept, very atmospheric, noone else there, just mee & sheep. Long walk to get there all uphill & knackered me. I took loads of photos and waited ages for a sunny spell to move my way but it fizzeled out so pics are a bit gloomy.

The stones are all angles but still in there origonal places and lovely lichen patterns on some.

Next stop was a look at the sea. Very empty, and the water was CCCCCold.

Great selection of pebbles , collectes a load  and carried them in my socks. Patterns in the sand never fail to facinate me.

To be continued......

Sunday Sunday Sun Day..... Windy Day......Clouds!! what happened.

Sunny again, windy too, what to do? Garden a mess, lawn half scarified, jasmine snipped, all on the ground waiting to be cleared, then the lawn can be finished, well not actually finished, cleared of the moss, cut, fed, never ending, why have a lawn at all, too much bother, leave it to become a wildlife meadow? Oh yes that's what it is anyway, any chance of getting a good lawn is a dream. But the new scarifier is great, yanks all the moss out (then I have to clear it up, ugh). Maybe I'll just go out today and leave the mess till tomorrow, and the planting of all the plants I bought yesterday that won't actually fit into the garden, No cure for a plantoholic is there?

I think insanity has set in............... I was going for a river picnic but now it looks c****y

The day before tomorrow

Here we go again, decide to go on holiday and leave all the arrangements to the last moment, typical, I never learn. This time a mad rush to get truffle spayed before the cattery will have her, helps to have a friendly vet, so a few strings pulled. she is sitting curled up next to me on the sofa with no idea what tomorrow will bring............. sorry  Truff.