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Dentdale, Cumbria

Catherine Lee

The ‘Visit Cumbria’ website says that Dent is maybe the finest of the Cumbria dales, even though until 1970 it wasn’t even in Cumbria, but in the West Riding of Yorkshire. And like Sedbergh, it may be in Cumbria now, but it’s also in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.  Ah well, the best of all possible worlds!  Anyway, Dent is just over the hills from Sedbergh, so near in fact that I have only been there, well, once. Yes, just once. And even then, only to Dent Village.  Isn’t that just the way it often is?! Dent is also famous … Continue reading Dentdale, Cumbria

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Sedbergh Church Christmas Fair :) ^_^ (:

Catherine Lee

Yippee, Christmas is coming and I love Christmas!  A bit early I know, but hey, gotta be ready! Yesterday was the Christmas Fair at St. Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh and of course along I went ~ what fun!  Met lots of people I knew (including Father Christmas himself) and lots I didn’t and of course always lots of interesting things to see and do and buy.  Guess the Teddy’s birthday, Guess the Weight of the Cake, listen to the brass band, shop shop and shop, but the highlight, so everyone says is always the lunch, especially the puddings, and yep I … Continue reading Sedbergh Church Christmas Fair 🙂 ^_^ (:

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Remembrance Day 2014….

Catherine Lee

Poppies everywhere these past few weeks, and especially at the Tower of London…. these were in a church in deepest Surrey…. All of us remembering the start of the First World War 100 years ago this year, plus all the other wars since then, and more recently Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Ukraine…. Of special local interest here in Cumbria is that the paper for all those red British Legion poppies comes from a paper factory just up the road in Burneside, Kendal – see the article here…. Continue reading Remembrance Day 2014….

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Kirkstone Pass, Cumbria ~ and Wordsworth was right!

Catherine Lee

Ah yes, the Kirkstone Pass, the highest pass in the Lake District at 454m – and there at the top is the welcome sight of the Kirkstone Pass Inn ~ where yesterday the log fire was so welcome and the pumpkin soup was just wonderful! Up from Troutbeck and down to Ullswater ~ stunning! It was Wordsworth who said about the Kirkstone Pass: “Who comes not hither ne’er shall know, how beautiful the world below…” So so true! Continue reading Kirkstone Pass, Cumbria ~ and Wordsworth was right!

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CMS Link Church Visit #1 ~ Sedbergh ~ YES!

Catherine Lee

My first official CMS Link Visit yesterday, starting at St. Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh, Cumbria ~ yippee! The first of many link visits this Home Leave, a few before Christmas and many after…. Sedbergh is kind of my home base, so the visit is kind of spread out and kind of started unofficially in the summer when I happened in on a mission coffee morning in Sedbergh URC Church in aid of CMS… and then continued yesterday when I spoke at the main Sunday morning service, and to be continued further with a ppt and coffee event in a few weeks … Continue reading CMS Link Church Visit #1 ~ Sedbergh ~ YES!

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Morecambe Bay ~ just amazing!

Catherine Lee

Huge, vast, ginormous in fact – there’s no other description, absolutely endless miles and miles of sands and water, stretching way beyond the horizon.  Unfortunately the sands are famous for being as dangerous as they are beautiful, but viewed from the safety of the road, well, yesterday they were spectacular! So near, and yet so far!  From the Howgill Fells above Sedbergh, Morecambe Bay glitters in the distance every time the sun comes out and the clouds lift, but it’s always one of the those places we pass by, and never go to. Enough is enough, and yesterday was the … Continue reading Morecambe Bay ~ just amazing!

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The Howgill Fells ~ in all their glory!

Catherine Lee

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!