Derwentwater

I felt a bit whacked this morning and so caught up with my sister on the phone on various bits of family stuff and then did a bit of sorting and dithered about going to Keswick to take books to Oxfam and possibly go for a walk and a talk at the Words by the Water. As I set off the weather was so foul I was put off and went to do a food shop instead but afterwards the mini militant in me decided it wanted an outing so I headed on to see if I could get a ticket for Guy Shrubsole’s ‘Who Owns England’. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/28/who-owns-england-guy-shrubsole-review-land-ownership
When I got there I found one space free in my regular parking spot and there was one returned ticket for the talk which had been sold out. There were few surprises in the talk, I knew that would be the case before I went but it just rekindled all I have always felt about the injustice and utter bonkers beyond belief ways in which land and, ipso facto, power, has been and continues to be established in this land.
If anyone feels motivated to take one small action there is the link below to the petition against the planned change in the law of trespass which is seeking to criminalise any act of trespass ...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300139

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/15/tresspass-trap-law-land-travelling-people-rights

Afterwards I went for a look at the land, thankfully owned by the National Trust and freely open to all along the lakeshore. It was jolly blowy.