On Monday morning Anne and I went to Lancaster to pick up an Avis car hire by National express bus service, 2 seniors out on a jaunt!
bus driver had to double back to pick up passengers bypassed in Windermere. So including missing the Kendal turn off My we took about hours.
we all drove out to Tarn Hows, one of the smaller lakes and walked around looking out for birds, trees, and any thing that took fancy.
we found some fallen trees that were covered by coins and washers hammered into the trunk. See photos above. It seems to be a phobia of some sort.
water is always an attraction to us all. Ellie decided to cross to an island on a log bridge not very stable. In the process dropped phone in water and quickly fished it out with out any apparent damage. She didn’t make the island.
Several trees were planted in protective enclosures as sponsored in recognition or memory of a loved one cor family. What a good way to assist in reforestation in National trust parks.
A herd of saddled Galloway cattle roamed the Tarn as part of the health balance on the land.
We saw Mallards, Canada geese, heard the Cuckoos, met several very wet dogs that had been swimming in the lake
on the way back went to Grasmere and found the https://www.grasmeregingerbread.co.uk/ Shop.
This is on the corner of the church yard and the Wordsworth Daffodil that was created as a fund raising exercise for the church I’ll of multiple varieties of daffodils and 3000 pavers with the names of sponsors. I can imagine it looking beautiful in Spring. It was failing when we saw it.
we returned to home bought provisions at Tesco’s and cooked dinner roast chicken and vegetables followed by Gingerbread with South African wine to suite