Yesterday was the best weather of the whole year ~ one solitary day of warm sunshine and little wind sandwiched between days of mild but wet and windy weather on either side – for one day, it was just wonderful! Frosty early in the morning, the first frost of the autumn – but then the sun came out, and yippee, time to go out! So what better than a few hours on the top of the Howgill Fells, up above Sedbergh… beautiful! It was Wainwright who described them as looking like a whole herd of sleeping elephants, and yep, that … Continue reading The Howgill Fells ~ in all their glory!

Yep, the big storm passed through yesterday, well big winds anyway, the tail-end of a hurricane that did a lot of damage in Bermuda and then moved on over here… But by mid-morning, it was mostly over and the sun came out ~ and so did the colours! Sedbergh countryside really looks good in the sun! Happy sheep, friendly cows and great autumnal colours! Continue reading Sedbergh, after the storm….