Back Home Again

 

Those of you that now follow me on Instagram will quite easily guessed that for the past few days we have been away on holiday, as I was busy sharing clips from days out and boat rides etc,  those of you that don't will find the title of todays post unusual to say the least.  😄

A while ago we booked a mid-week break to this lovely little cottage in the Lake District, around four miles from Keswick.  My son lives in Cumbria so we were going to combine it with a visit to him, and we did. 

Our first morning out was to Keswick, for a little mooch around the shops, a couple of coffees and lots of people watching.  After getting some shopping from what is seemingly the largest Booths in the chain of stores, we headed back to the cottage for an early tea and then set off for Simon's.

It's a picturesque journey to Frizington along the A66 passing by lakes and glorious views, and one that we hadn't done for quite a while.  Happily two of my grandsons visited the same evening so that we could all spend some time together.

Wednesday morning saw us heading to Wordsworth's house in Cockermouth.

What seems like a plain house on the outside was in fact a lovely homely house on the inside.  

The 'best office'.

A well-stocked larder.

The walled garden was absolutely glorious and buzzing with bees.

As requested I helped myself to a teaspoonful of wild flower seeds.  ⚘⚘⚘

The River Derwent over the garden wall.

We decided we needed some fresh sea air after the heat of the morning, so we drove to Whitehaven Harbour and sat on the front enjoying sandwiches and coffee ... not a bad way to spend a lovely afternoon.

We got home had a bit of tea and television watching, and then Simon and Emma returned our visit and came to see us at the cottage.  No doubt stealing a few ideas from this beautiful decorated and equipped cottage for their own home, which they are currently taking back to original stone inside on some of the walls.

For our final day we headed to Ambleside, stopping at Hayes Garden World which sadly has now been taken over by a much bigger company.  We had a nice lunch there and then continued through the Lake District heading for Bowness on Windermere, where I worked at a couple of jobs many years ago.

We had a little stroll around and then decided to have a sail on Windermere on one of the large boats ... neither of us was in the mood for a rowing session.  😉

It was lovely to be on the water for ninety minutes of calm, breezy peace and quiet.

We ended a lovely day with tea, coffee and cakes in Lakeland's café, before making a few purchases and heading back to our cottage home.

After a lovely evening drinking wine, eating up the last of the food that we had brought from home and watching television, we turned in for the last time, drinking in the wonderful views from the upstairs windows.

I don't know if officially it was allowed, but as we had sadly lost Mavis after we had made this booking we decided to take Ginger with us.  All the booking forms and the blurb for the cottage talked about 'pets' being welcome, not specifically dogs, so he came too.  While he was a little angel at the cottage itself he really did not like the journey there or back, yowling all the way.  

He will not be joining us again!!

It was a good little break from home and one that was really needed after all the stresses of the past year and the first few months of this one.  Now we just have to wait until August when we have another mid-week break booked, just us two ... no cat!!

Here is a link to Squirrel Cottage if you would like to have a little look around it.

Sue xx