To Keswick and beyond...
Okay so that doesn't quite have the ring of Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase. After a stop off in Manchester with my brother and sister-in-law, a smashing Indian meal courtesy of my other sister-in-law and much nattering by us girls whilst the boys played with computers, we pushed off after Saturday lunch to the Lakes.
And ran smack into a traffic jam at J9 of the M60. When we reached the front of it there was a mobile home jackknifed off it's trailer across three lanes. Unfortunately there was also a pile up of cars with Firemen pulling tarps over, presumably to protect the poor souls trapped inside. Colonel K pointed out that had we left Urmston on time rather than our normal shambolic sorting-ourselves-out at least half an hour later than we'd planned, we could have been stuck in that.
We headed North through various forms of wetness, from the Gaelic "fine soft day" to the full-on deluge, until we reached Kendal when a little patch of blue appeared. Suddenly the whole sky cleared, the sun shone down, I got out my sunglasses-and it all went away again. WE arrived in Keswick around 4:30 in drizzle to collect keys and find our new (temporary) home,
It's rather nice, very spacious and quite close to shops and other useful amenities-like the Pencil Museum.
No, really ...
And ran smack into a traffic jam at J9 of the M60. When we reached the front of it there was a mobile home jackknifed off it's trailer across three lanes. Unfortunately there was also a pile up of cars with Firemen pulling tarps over, presumably to protect the poor souls trapped inside. Colonel K pointed out that had we left Urmston on time rather than our normal shambolic sorting-ourselves-out at least half an hour later than we'd planned, we could have been stuck in that.
We headed North through various forms of wetness, from the Gaelic "fine soft day" to the full-on deluge, until we reached Kendal when a little patch of blue appeared. Suddenly the whole sky cleared, the sun shone down, I got out my sunglasses-and it all went away again. WE arrived in Keswick around 4:30 in drizzle to collect keys and find our new (temporary) home,
It's rather nice, very spacious and quite close to shops and other useful amenities-like the Pencil Museum.
No, really ...