A very different day, sunny but very cold…even the air looked cold! But before I take you on a walk around the valley, I better clear up yesterdays little mystery….
What did Jean buy in Keswick yesterday? It was a Rabbit, no ordinary Rabbit but Peter Rabbit…..I guess it will find a new home with Ewan our new grandson.
Derwentwater and Borrowdale is one of the most beautiful locations here in the English Lake District. It combines lake, valley, ancient woodland and mountains just great to explore on foot. So let me take you on a short visual tour of some of my high spots that I hope will give you the full flavour of the area.
It would be easy to think that the valley has always been so tranquil but like most of our countryside it was once a work place…
Slate and mineral mining was a major industry. Look carefully and traces of this past can easily be found…
A Mine sough for draining water from the mine and a scree slope of mine waste now look like a natural part of the landscape. Slate, as mentioned before, is a versatile building material. Used in sheets, as a wall, nothing can be as easy to construct or as durable…this wall surrounds Grange Parish Church.
The National Trust take care of much of the Lake District, so it is fitting that a memorial to their 100 years of care, should be placed here by Derwentwater…..A giant pair of Hands carved from massive pieces of wood
and just to give you a better idea of scale here is Buster our Head of Security giving them the once over!
But every good walk needs a good ‘fuel’ stop for energy
and what better than
Warm Gingerbread with Maple Syrup and loads of Whipped Cream
GREAT
Then back home past Manesty Farm…what a great location and a great day.
27th APRIL
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