Second Day in Cumbria

My sister has been putting up the Christmas decorations.

Even the family cat has her own Santa.

I was back in Carlisle this morning.

I took a couple of photos of some of the decorations.

This one is outside the old town hall.

The sun was catching the panels on the front and casting a coloured light

across the ground.

Yes I did say sun.

Most unusual,

as it usually rains whenever I'm over here.

True to form,

after taking these photos,

I went to the library,

and when I left it was raining-

very hard.

This evening we've been celebrating my nephew's 18th birthday.

It's been nice being able to share it with him.

Fairy cakes for the hungry traveller

Mike returned from 10 days in sweden. I made some fairy cakes to welcome him home.

He had to leave behind him views like this;

This is a photo of the boathouse. It is a lovely place to swim from in the summer. No wonder Mike is missing Sweden right now.

My favourite place in the Uk is The Lake Districthttp://www.visitcumbria.co/kes/watend.htm and I've always wanted to live there. I used to live near Carlisle http://www.historic-carlisle.org.uk/historiccarlisle/main.asp?page=0 which isn't too far away. I used to enjoy fell walking http://wwwandyfellwalker.com/index.html and spent many a happy weekend tramping the fells.

I always wanted to live in The Lake District and I suppose to some degree I have accomplished that- just it's the Swedish Lake District, well we are surrounded by 5 lakes.