Old haunts

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So good to be back on the coast again and to be able to see the sea!  If I know where the sea is, I feel things can't go too awry!  In need of provisions, we went to Seascale.  I have no memories of the place, but it was my first home as Dad worked at Windscale nuclear power station, just further along the coast.  We were living in Seascale at the time of the accident and fire at Windscale - I was 6 months old at the time.

Today Mike and I had a look around the town and the church of St Cuthbert then Lottie and I had a run on the beach.  Good for her to be able to have a proper run off the lead and get rid of some surplus energy!  I noticed that the toilet at St Cuthbert's is twinned with one in Tanzania.  What a great idea!  World Toilet Day is 19th November - one in three people in the world do not have a safe toilet to use.

After lunch it was a trip on La'al Ratty, the Ravenglass to Dalegarth narrow gauge steam railway.  Lottie's first train journey and she took to it as easily as Ollie had.  From Dalegarth we walked up to Boot to see how the restoration of the Eskdale mill was getting on.  Terrific to see the progress!  So much work has been done, it's looking great.  Lovely to walk around and see all the renovations.  So impressive, the wooden water wheels are working again and the mill stones are grinding corn, 700 years since they first started.  There is a new water wheel there too, a modern one, generating enough power to put some back into the national grid!

Back to Ravenglass on the last steam train of the day.  A super day, and even Lottie was exhausted!