Back Home for a Weekend

A fun activity

Saturday morning was spent, as usual, on the pitch at Ingleton School with Tom football training.   We had lunch at Bernies and then headed to Kendal dry ski slope for Charlie's tubing party.  Always a fun activity.  Tom's been there before for a party but that was 2 years ago - he's much stronger now and kept going like a train, running up the slope with his tube to get in as many runs as possible.  I think it is fair to say they worked hard and played hard.  A good time was had by all.

Caterpillar tubes

In the sunshine

Sunday dawned lovely and bright.  We decided it was high time for a walk - to blow away all the remaining London yuck in our systems.  Matt had found a track we haven't yet done near Horton, so we headed up a dead end and found a parking space.  It wasn't an easy walk to find and do but with GPS we managed it and found ourselves on part of a walk we had done before.  It was a pretty walk - part of the 3 peaks (we think).  Some very old bridges, streams that disappeared into no-where, tracks and off road tramping.

Pen-y-ghent looking stunning

It was a little longer than we expected at almost 5 miles, but it was good and the weather good and it wasn't too cold.  We all managed it in good spirits.  We stopped off at a tea room in Horton we hadn't tried before, Blind Beck.  Was an interesting place, run by a Grannie and her grand-daughter, serving 'stuff' on toast for very reasonable prices.  Matt had cheese on toast, Tom spaghetti on toast and I had beans on toast.  We also bought some homemade jam and biscuits, we all had drinks and it came to little over £10.

We then headed home and had a quiet rest of the day, in preparation for school again tomorrow, why do the holidays always rush past so quickly?