Christmas in the Lake District - 29 November-1 December 2013

It is a tradition of ours to go away for the first weekend in December to celebrate Christmas.  We do a day's work on the Saturday, have a traditional Christmas supper and secret Santa and then on Sunday go for a walk.  We used to always go to Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire but ever since their basecamp closed have gone to High Wray in the Lake District.

Happy Christmas!

We spent Saturday rhodybashing on steep wooded ground at Harrow Slack and gave the ranger Jamie a Christmas present by clearing most of the rhody there.  A roaring bonfire keep everybody warm.  Charlie had stayed at basecamp to start the chopping of the vegetables and Hazel returned to basecamp early to help prepare a delicious supper of turkey plus all the trimmings accompanied by the wine that we won at the pub quiz last month.  Later in the evening secret Santa visited and we played the names-in-a-hat game (if you don't know how to play join us next year!).

On Sunday we went for a short walk from the basecamp to Latterbarrow and enjoyed views of Hawkeshead, Windermere and the Fairfield Horseshoe.

(thanks to Ally for the above details and photo)