Glenridding Beck

A morning moseying around Glenridding, bit of shopping in Catstycam, coffee down by the lake.

There were loads of swifts around the hotel, nesting in the eaves. Their acrobatic and spectacular flying was a joy to behold. We could hear them screaming as they sliced through the air. I tried to capture their display using slo-mo video then grabbing a frame. It’s an extra.

It was a beautiful morning around Ullswater, even hot, as we walked alongside and across Glenridding Beck. So little water. Yet this was the scene of utter devastation from Storm Desmond in 2015. So calm and peaceful today. With the completion of the works on the beck and the opening of the new Pooley Bridge crossing you’d be hard pushed to imagine what it was like during that storm and the dark days that followed: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/23/article-P-d2b1d311-7ea5-409c-a0f8-816dc49d7349-23zuzDkYVi83996c6b1d6e9f0e5c-603_634x356.jpg

All too soon it was time to leave on the long trip home, we could delay it no longer. We stopped at Mainsgill on the A66 for a late lunch. Driving down the A1 it started to rain and the temperatures dropped from 23 to 12 deg C

For most of the way south from there on it seemed like we were in a haar, so murky were the conditions. Nevertheless we made good progress arriving back safely just after 9.00pm and we’re all unpacked. Normal service should resume tomorrow.