At last a few days away in the beautiful Lake District for Saboohi, Lilia and myself. We rented a National Trust property, an appartment called Bank Wood in the west wing of the old sandstone Acorn House (see photo). This is NT at its best, they have renovated the wings of this building to provide income from 4 appartments so that they can eventually repair the rest of the house. We were very pleased to be donating to such a good cause! We visited Dove Cottage today the simple and small home of the great poet William Wordsworth. Apparantly 14 people lived in this tiny cottage at one stage during his ownership, they must have been sleeping in shifts. We also learnt the origin of the saying "daylight robbery" here, a phrase that was coined when they introduced a tax on glass windows and people had to brick them up to save themselves money!
We set off on one of our 1001 walks of Britain today, starting at Pooley Bridge and then up and over the moors around Ullswater. RAF jets were flying low above us throughout the walk and the famous Lake District rain soaked us to the skin. Lilia had a ball! After the walk we called in to watch the Rydal Sheep dog and Hound trials, it was wet and muddy but it was placed in the most gloriously green valley,such a pretty spot. The highlight of our visit was a hound race called the "dog dash". A pack of hounds following a aniseed scented trail around the lakeland hills ad the first hound back to the valley won. The noise was terrific, from owners as well as the hounds, such excitement and with such a stunning backdrop it was the highlight of my day.
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