R's rue

Weather-wise it has been a pretty good week up here on the southern edge of  The Lake District. However, it was always predicted that Thursday September 22nd would be a washout as a moisture-laden front moved in from the North Atlantic. We decided to just stay home, mooching about, reading, knitting or editing photographs. Our apartment at Summer Hill is spacious, clean and well-equipped with no expense spared on fixtures and fittings. Because of this we could easily bear our self-imposed confinement  We had also planned to venture out in the evening for our dinner (Yorkshire: tea) . We drove north for a couple of miles to the village of Lowick and parked Clint opposite "The Red Lion" It is an old-fashioned public house - warm and clean with no television  sets glaring or music blaring. I had a couple of pints of "Flat Cap" bitter and Shirley had two glasses of golden ale. For my main course I ordered beer-battered cod with chips (American: fries) and mushy pea...

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  What a difference a day makes. The weather is miserable, it’s wet and very damp and the dogs are restless. Dorothy woke me up at 7 am- gently occluding my airway with her throat until I woke up…it works like a dream. I’ve walked them now twice in the rain, shopped bought a new back door handle ( it broke last night in Trendy Carol’s husband’s hand) and cleaned the cottage .  By the time I’d bleached the kitchen floor and hung damp washing next to the thermal store it was almost two in the afternoon and I’ve decided to do no more. Feet are up on the couch  A Victorian thriller on the tv. I’ve heard we have a Ukrainian family living in the village . They have children in the school. It would be nice to meet them and say hello. There is a coffee morning on Saturday on in the hall they may well be going to , but I’m working  The interest rates have gone up today.  I’ve held off lighting the fire until later I’ve put a jumper on from Going Gently...