These are rather late and out of sequence…

Near the top of The Old Man of Coniston

The view of Derwent water on our way down from Cat’s Bells

Surveying the way forward…

Near the end of the Old Man

The fun decent from Harrison Stickle

I hope you’re not going to tell us that you ate those after performing the feat;-)

Or at least snorted them at someone as an amusing jape!

Thanks for the letter and postcard ma. The postcard arrived today; is it of an alley near where you are?

I will forward the letter on to France soonest.

Things are fine back at the homestead. I think we still have all the chickens and Minion’s rehabilitation is going well. She is allowed in the house during to day if someone is in, but gets restricted to the kitchen if not.

We are currently eating leeks, kale and the occasional bit of lettuce from the garden.

45km is quite a ludicrous amount ground to cover. I shouldn’t wonder if your feet are not covered in numerous blisters. Most impressive though; it puts our 8km walks in the lakes to shade!

It’s also a good illustration as to why I always used to get the second-to-last train back from Chichester, back in the day when I actually went out…

Our trip to the lakes was very successful. With the final guestlist comprising of Me, Han, Sue and Patty, we split our visit between epic walks and visits to towns and other places of interest. Jul, being partially crippled, stayed at home.

Han and I did three big walks in total: Cat’s Bells (returning via Derwent water, 4hrs), very pleasant and a good warm-up walk; Harrison Stickle (via Stickle Tarn, as recommended by Tan, 6hrs), good fun with a great decent down by Loft Crag; The Old Man Of Coniston (coming back via Swirl How, 6hrs), really good, steep climb up to the top of Old Man and good views on the way down.

I shall upload some photos when I can get Virgin to sort out our broadband!

I second Solid’s opinion of the Wii. Though I have only played Tennis on it, and then only once. Perhaps the 360 is worth it, if only for the Ping Pong…