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The forecast was for showers again ☔ We went to Coniston and the Ruskin museum, which was a bit of a Random Bag of Stuff. It also has Donald Campbell’s K7 Bluebird, in which he very nearly broke his own water-speed record in Jan 1967, but died in the attempt. After lunch, we got the Read more

The weather has turned… Sunshine & showers, gusty winds (50mph this afternoon!) so we decided not to do the Fairfield Horseshoe ridge walk. We drove to Troutbeck, the next valley south of us, and parked by the church about half way up. Then we walked up along the south side, towards the head and “the Read more