Where's Erica? She's on the same bit of hardstanding at the certified (5-van) site at Yanwath as she was on 12 April.
Weather: a showery drive north, and a showery evening too.
Last week I examined various weather forecasts and, based on what they told me, we booked a couple of campsites for this week. The intention is for me to repeat the north end of the Lakeland 50 route tomorrow and, on Wednesday, for Mick to recce the south end (which he missed doing when we were here a couple of weeks ago due to a sore knee). The forecast for both days looked good...
...until the bookings were made, whereupon raindrop symbols started appearing on Tuesday's forecast. Harrumph. After my wet recce a couple of weeks ago, I really wanted to do this one in fine weather. It's the problem of booking things in advance: it removes flexibility.
As for our day, it was an early start and a drive up to friends near Preston, where (having all taken lateral flow tests to be sure we were safe to meet) we went into their house and had a lovely time over several hours catching up with over a year and a half's news.
Late in the afternoon we bade them farewell and up to Yanwath, near Penrith we headed, arriving to find, with some relief, that the hardstanding was available (given the amount of rain lately, I wasn't keen on driving onto grass). Finding someone to pay was something of a challenge, but eventually cash was handed over to someone, even if that someone wasn't the owner.
We've tried to get ourselves as organised as possible tonight, so as to get an early start tomorrow. My intended 0600 alarm has now been modified to 0530, in view of the changing forecast that is now suggesting that rain is coming in at around 2pm.
Talking of being organised: as we're staying on campsites which have electricity included in the price, we brought the electric kettle out of Bertie. Unfortunately, I failed to think about the fact that Bertie's kettle is fitted with a 2-pin European plug, whereas Erica's electric set-up is British. We've also discovered that the new hob-top kettle that we bought for Erica: a) leaks; and b) whilst technically of 1-litre capacity, has a usable capacity smaller than our two mugs.
Weather: a showery drive north, and a showery evening too.
Last week I examined various weather forecasts and, based on what they told me, we booked a couple of campsites for this week. The intention is for me to repeat the north end of the Lakeland 50 route tomorrow and, on Wednesday, for Mick to recce the south end (which he missed doing when we were here a couple of weeks ago due to a sore knee). The forecast for both days looked good...
...until the bookings were made, whereupon raindrop symbols started appearing on Tuesday's forecast. Harrumph. After my wet recce a couple of weeks ago, I really wanted to do this one in fine weather. It's the problem of booking things in advance: it removes flexibility.
As for our day, it was an early start and a drive up to friends near Preston, where (having all taken lateral flow tests to be sure we were safe to meet) we went into their house and had a lovely time over several hours catching up with over a year and a half's news.
Late in the afternoon we bade them farewell and up to Yanwath, near Penrith we headed, arriving to find, with some relief, that the hardstanding was available (given the amount of rain lately, I wasn't keen on driving onto grass). Finding someone to pay was something of a challenge, but eventually cash was handed over to someone, even if that someone wasn't the owner.
We've tried to get ourselves as organised as possible tonight, so as to get an early start tomorrow. My intended 0600 alarm has now been modified to 0530, in view of the changing forecast that is now suggesting that rain is coming in at around 2pm.
Talking of being organised: as we're staying on campsites which have electricity included in the price, we brought the electric kettle out of Bertie. Unfortunately, I failed to think about the fact that Bertie's kettle is fitted with a 2-pin European plug, whereas Erica's electric set-up is British. We've also discovered that the new hob-top kettle that we bought for Erica: a) leaks; and b) whilst technically of 1-litre capacity, has a usable capacity smaller than our two mugs.
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