Posts tagged 'Bassenthwaite Lake'

A Friday finale

Posted by on November 15th 2021 in Car stuff, Great Escapes, Lakes Escapes

We woke to a glorious morning - clear skies with that late-season feel in the air, and the promise of a day of fine weather.

The garden was a busy place - a couple of pairs of braces of pheasant at last count. Of course, by the time I'd grabbed my camera they'd all buggered off.

Anyway, here's one last pic from the window:

Binsey... again

 

Packing the car is so much easier now that we use Really Useful Boxes for the majority of our stuff.

Talking of cars, here's the latest addition to our family:

Olga sitting pretty on the driveway at Owl's Roost

 

Soon we'd finished packing away our gear and were on our way, but I couldn't resist stopping for just one more pic:

Blue skies over Skiddaw and Dodd

 

And that was that. The end of a fine and much-overdue week away.
We're already planning another 🙂

A Thursday there-and-back-again

Posted by on November 14th 2021 in Great Escapes, Lakes Escapes

We didn't much fancy another full day of walking, as we would need to pack later for our departure early on Friday, so we stayed local and settled for a pleasant lakeside walk - a couple or three miles along Bassenthwaite Lake's western shore. A fair few interesting birds were about but none of them were interested in posing for the camera, so you'll have to make do with pics of less-mobile things:

 

Binsey again

 

A late and lonely Leucanthemum vulgare (ox-eye daisy, oxeye daisy, dog daisy, marguerite)

 

Looking towards Skiddaw

 

"Imagine that you're walking through a wood..."

 

A leisurely lunch was had at the much-lauded local - The Pheasant Inn:

 

Suitably dressed for the occasion

 

Despite evidence to the contrary, it was still Thursday

 

After that we toyed with the idea of spending the afternoon at Dubwath Silver Meadows wetland nature reserve but decided to leave that for another holiday. Instead we took a short stroll back to the cottage for a brew and a few hours of packing up ready for Friday.