I'm back and scheduling some blog posts, and I thought I'd share a photograph of the beautiful blossom we are lucky enough to have in the garden at the moment. I love seeing the blossom out and there are some beautiful colours around.
It was a wonderful, warm sunny bank holiday Monday here in our part of the UK yesterday, which is quite a rarity, and we worked hard in the front garden; we're trying to remove all the grey concrete slabs and begin to create a cottage garden. Daisy was of course on hand to offer her help; well, actually she was quite sensibly sleeping peacefully in the shade most of the day.
She, along with us, enjoyed the break we had in the Lake District. We even had lunch outside one day near to Ullswater with the fells around us as a stunning backdrop.
Such a wonderful part of the world. We did some lovely walks and enjoyed the fabulous scenery. I also found time to browse around some of the bookshops, of course, and in particular I enjoyed looking in Fred Holdsworth's, an independent bookshop in Ambleside. Here's a photo of the notice in the window highlighting the books that have been selling well there. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink was one of their World Book Night books which I thought was an excellent choice as that's the one I gave away too!
I'll leave you for now with a photo of Grasmere and the surrounding fells. The one on the left of the dip is Helm Crag which we have walked up on a previous visit.
