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At the end of our Lakeland stay we were invited to spend a couple of days with Ann and Roger at Oak Cottage. It’s always a pleasure to stay there, and at last a much needed sunny day was forecast for the Monday so it was arranged that some of us would have a walk together. Gradually during the morning more people arrived at Oak Cottage. It was a lovely surprise to see Liz and Barrie walk past the kitchen window as I must have been in the shower when they rang to see what was happening that day, so didn’t know they were arriving. Jo was the next to arrive followed shortly after by James and then Jayne so that meant in total there were 9 of us. A discussion about where we would walk finished with Low Fell being our destination, helped by the fact that it was a fell that Liz and Barrie hadn’t walked together before. For Nigel and me, we had looked so many times at Low Fell from Oak Cottage and seen the “special tree”, so we were only too happy to walk there too. We started the walk from Thackthwaite, but it seems to me there may be some strange phenomenon in the village. I wonder if there is some “Thackthwaite triangle” where people disappear! I have a series of pictures with Ann, Jo, Liz, Barrie and Roger walking through the village and it’s clear from these pictures that Liz does at one point vanish. The beauty of digital pictures is that you can look on your computer at the Exif data from each of the pictures you take. It tells you things like the speed at which the picture is taken and also exactly when the picture is taken. Now I know that two of the pictures were taken within 7 seconds of each other, and Liz and Sam are nowhere to be seen in the 2nd one!  Some of the group walk through Thackthwaite.  Where has Liz and Sam gone? Thankfully Liz or Sam never really disappeared although I’d still really like to know where they were in that 2nd picture. We passed by some lovely buddleias that had numerous Red Admirals and Peacock butterflies on them which had been encouraged out just like us by the warm sunshine. Then we were all soon making our way up the zigzag slopes of Low Fell, stopping quite frequently to either finish conversations or to take in the ever-changing views. There was a lot of conversation going on and it seemed that there was never for one second I think a quiet moment! It is probably just as well the walk was mostly along nicely graded footpaths and nothing too steep (on the way up at least) as it’s very hard not to get too out of breath when you are walking uphill and talking as well. Now Jayne has recently moved to the Lake District and she and Max are busy restoring their garden to a wildlife friendly haven which you can read about on her blog. She has her own mission too and that is to climb all the hills that can be seen from their house, which she calls Hill’s hills. At one point out came a pair on binoculars as she tried to make out their property from Low Fell.  Old Scot's Pine It was then a walk of great fun and gave Nigel and me a chance to spend some time with friends we sadly don’t get the chance to see very often. It made the perfect end to our Lakeland stay so thanks to Ann and Roger, Liz and Barrie, Jo, Jayne and James for making it a very special day and a walk to remember for a very long time. Thanks too to Ann and Roger for allowing us to stay and making it very hard to leave and head home.
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