Sweets!

I guess it's the tourist trade, but for as long as lived here and, I assume, for some time before that, Kirkby Lonsdale has sustained an old-fashioned sweet shop on its market square, with shelves full of big jars of sweets.

In what is arguably not a great bit of parenting - at least from a dental health perspective - I bought a load of sweets from there to fill up this jar as one of Izzy's birthday presents. 

I didn't have many plans for today, just a German lesson in the morning and then recording the radio show in the afternoon. It's been very cold here and I assumed the roads up on the hills would be too icy to run on.

But as the day progressed, I began to feel more and more like I just wanted to get out for a run, so in the end I did. Admittedly the lanes up behind Casterton did have some large ice patches but I managed to get 'round them without incident, and I'm glad I went.