Playing catchup with village life now we're back, but also
making the effort
to meet friends and go on longer walks where the better weather
and spare time allows.
The Monday after the Church's Harvest Sunday is a supper in
the hall and includes an auction of produce.
An array of fruit, veg and other items, all
home grown according to the auctioneer.
I think we have to take that with a pinch of
salt, as I've never seen some of the produce on offer thriving
in anyone's garden.
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Still, the gifts to the church are
transferred to cash equivalents
which can be distributed via Church
charities in a much easier form.
Amongst the offerings was this little
critter . . .
It turns out to be a common yellow
ladybird,
common but one I had never seen before.
We offered it its freedom outside
before the auction started.
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After the recent rains we had a walk down to
the lake and saw some of nature's harvest.
These were two Fly Agarics, one with a black
slug just crawling up for his harvest supper.
These were the rains before Storm Babbet, but
even so the lake levels were up.
The land behind the wave wall and footpath was
flooded, making the walk 'interesting'.
Apologies for an out of focus picture but the
camera couldn't cope with the moving water (and I didn't have
my glasses on)!
These are two vortexes caused by water draining
through two pipes under the path. Normally the pipes are only
partially submerged.
What the picture does show however is that the
vortexes are rotating in opposite directions which debunks the
theory about the rotation of the earth.
Local factors such as the rotation of the stronger
one, has spun the adjacent weaker vortex the opposite direction.
The departing rain at the head of the valley.
The last of the cloud clears from the top of
Grasmoor
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Plans are afoot to change all this, due to the
cessation of extraction of drinking water from the lake.
The latest thoughts of United Utilities is documented
at :- https://www.unitedutilities.com/Crummock/
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On Sunday 8th my friend Barbara, Pete Burgess's
mum, announced that she would be in Keswick
so Loes and I invited her to lunch and a small
walk over at Lingholm on the shores of Derwent Water.
You try and take a nice photo but they want
to play with the rabbit and sing . . .
. . . so I bring the dogs in to quieten them
down.
Lingholm, apart form the nice cafe, has a relatively
new octagonal walled garden, the original one of which was inspirational
to Beatrix Potter.
We had a stroll around the garden after lunch
and marvelled at the produce they still managed to be growing
at this time of year.
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Out in the
flower beds there was still colour to be seen. |
Agapanthus to the left
but this one was an unknown to me. |
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I'm fairly certain that your unknown flower is a Slavia
. . . Angela (peakwalker.net)
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There are several nice walks through the grounds
of the Lingholm Estate, including the 'Round the Lake' path
for Derwent Water.
We headed out on a short walk and found ourselves
following the alpacas.
They have a herd here and you can pay or volunteer
to walk them as a therapy for yourself, or even perhaps, for
them.
This one standing proud as I take a picture
over the fence between them and the public path.
The roof and chimneys of Lingholm House seen
across the field.
A full circuit of the lake is logged below but
today we just enjoyed a shorter stroll through the woods and
then returned to the car.
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Technical note: Pictures taken
with my iPhone 11pro mobile phone camera.
Resized in Photoshop, and built
up on a Dreamweaver web builder.
This site best viewed with
. . . seeing what is possible in a vegetable garden if you
put time and effort into it.
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28th Sept 2023 - Rannerdale
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11th February - Round
Derwent Water with Julie
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and Muncaster
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