SOME SEASONAL PICTURES

 Indoors as well as out, the colours are rich

 As well as mellow fruitfulness it's also the season of silly spookiness

My beautiful family ...

... getting ready for a party

A BIT OF A BOOB!

I have never been good with numbers- I am more of a word person- but I am by no means proud of my "number blindness", and have never been able to understand why some people think it's OK to be innumerate, as long as you aren't illiterate. Because of my inability to "see" numbers, I usually cut and paste them, which is what I did- or at least it's what I think I did- with the ISBN for The Boy with Two Heads when I designed the fliers. However, I got one digit wrong, leading to at least one problem when somebody tried to order it in a bookshop, using the ISBN, only to be told the book didn't exist!

So- if you have got a flier for The Boy with Two Heads:- destroy it!

The correct ISBN is: 978-0956810441

My very humble apologies!!

WALKS BY THE WATER

We usually have a big family Easter party with at least a dozen of us in and around The Red House, hunting Easter Eggs and sleeping in every bed in the house, the cabin and the guests' caravan. However, this year, everybody is doing their own thing, and only Kate and her little family of two cats and a dog are in Cumbria this year.

Catbells and Robinson from Crow Park

For Kate's first day with us, we decided to go to Keswick, have lunch in The Dog and Gun, and take Wicket for a walk along the shore of the lake. Our usual route is to Friar's Crag and then along the shore to the east- in a clockwise direction round the lake. This time, we walked in the opposite direction, across Crow Park and through a mossy willow plantation to the boatyard on Isthmus Bay. Wicket had a wonderful time, meeting lots of other dogs, being ooohed and aaahed over by humans, getting wet and doing tricks by the lake.

Nothing much to report really - just some photos that record the beauty of the area we are so lucky to live in, and the joy of a small dog exploring an new landscape of sights, sounds and above all, smells!

Gossip by the Mountain