it has been a weather wicked end to our year here in the lake district. but it has not made us regret our decision to move here lock stock and barrel. i currently have the benefit of taking myself off to the smoke for one night a week to be in the office for two days out of four and i am still wondering how long i will do this, but for now it suits and it's a financial bonus until i decide what to do with the next chapter in my working life.
anyway it has been none stop grey skies here for the past two months, we had been hoping for a little snow but it has been too mild and instead we have had none stop rain and wind.
the county has indeed been hit hard, so far so lucky for us being up on a hill and out of reach of any overspilling brook or beck, but i won't count all my chicken's just yet, we may not be out of the woods yet as we are yet to feel the brunt of storm frank which is due to hit our doorsteps this week, so we will see. but to be honest we haven't been completely out of the force of all the the other 5 of this years aptly named storms, our walls in the cottage here up in hoo lane will need a good treatment once we get a chance to dry up, it looks like someone spat at it with a blow tube and 18inthecorner our newly made holiday cottage looks as though someone poured a bucket of goodness knows what down the adjoining walls in our attic rooms, apologies to all our recent visitors have been made, as we won't be able to get anyone out to it, until it really gives up raining here.
so with christmas out of the way (it was a nice easy one with mum and dad) and before the new year madness gets hold, we decided yesterday, to get ourselves out and have a walk around grasmere. it was a still calm day so we decided to walk on the lower flanks of loughrigg and down to the stretch of water. later on we hopped in the car and had coffee down at the garden centre and had a mooch around the village. it's amazing what a small amount of the outdoors does for one's spirit. considering all the flooding grasmere got, it truly was open for business, we even got to bring home a little bit of ginger heaven from sarah nelson's gingerbread shop that will indeed do nicely!
we sort out william wordsworths family grave spot and found that it was well protected by a fine tree and looked out over onto yonder fell.
grasmere and its local environs is a beautiful corner of our lovely county cumbria and well worth a visit and even if it's a bit rainy too!
so i wish this lovely county that we now have the pleasure to live in, all the luck and good wishes in the world for 2016 and here's a little help towards that...
see you all again in 2016
xx
