And predictably the self proclaimed neighbours from hell were awake before 7; screaming and yelling... Oh well.
A grey day. So we took an executive decision to bundle up the camping stuff and go walking, get wet and head for home with its warm baths and comfy beds.

We settled on more C2C; Shap to Orton recce. We started off around 11, and walked for a coupe of hours. After the initial shock of the M6 and mainline railway, eventually we climbed higher and further away from civilisation and onto unspeakably gorgeous nothingness. I had a certain expectation for this section, but it was well and truly surpassed. Quieter than the previous day, too. I reckon we covered around 5 miles through fields, across moorland, past limestone pavement - all very soothing and comforting somehow.
Drizzle and rain and overcast in turn - it mattered not.

We arrived back in Shap and changed into dry clothes, cooked lunch on the stove behind Rheged (sausages, beans and mushrooms picked on th moors that afternoon) before heading to a café in Threlkeld to meet
onedavid for a discussion about blipstorminateacup over coffee. Was a good 90 minutes before we deposited him in a layby on the A66 and we drove up the M6 M74 through incredible gloom to arrive in a really rather pleasant summer's evening in Edinburgh.

A mad hour of activity before doing smoked haddock and new potatoes and sleep.

A reprise of yesterday's shot; with added fleece, rain, gloom and greyness.