Christmas in the Lakes for my daughter’s mother-in-law must have been an exhausting time, what with catering for half her family quarantined away at the top of her house, as well as presumably washing their clothing, bed linen, towels, etc.,  let alone generally worrying about their limited access to all the seasonal pleasures enjoyed by […]

Very happy to record that we’ve got through January with no snow and not a lot of rain either. We’ve also felt the benefit of an increase in the hours of daylight which means I can spend about 3 minutes longer every day before giving up my position in natural light by my bedroom window […]