They Left Us To Drown

We find out the next day that some friends of ours, with whom we often visit the Lakes, are in the area too. We get a text from them on Sunday and it turns out they have a cottage, which is dry with spare rooms, a real fire and all mod cons yet they appear to have left us to drown. Well perhaps not, their text was delayed a day due to our lack of reception and was sent as a result of Daughter liaising with them on Facebook. Yep their cottage even had Facebook on tap. Ok so it’s not all good, although I suppose this shows that perhaps Facebook does have a use after all. Who'd have thought. All the same I’m sure the cottage wasn’t as cosy as our tent or as warm as our heating, supplied as it was by wet dog power. So I’m confident L wasn’t jealous.

I take her for Sunday lunch just to make sure and we meet up with our friends afterwards for a beer, just to show there's no hard feelings.

Overall I don’t think the weekend went too badly and L’s already booked us in for the Langdale Christmas 10k. So we’ll be back in December for that and she’s also got her eye on next year’s Sticky Toffee Run at Cartmel. Which should be a great t-shirt and you even get the legendary pudding too.



There's a choice of events. The 10km Sticky Toffee Trail Run and a 'Beauty and Beast' 18km Trail Run, which is described as 'mostly' beautiful with panoramic views of both Morecambe Bay and the surrounding peaks, runnable, mainly along waymarked footpaths and bridleways, but with short horrible, tough sections...

There seems to be a disclaimer at the bottom 'Underfoot conditions are variable with a bit of everything. Good fast sections, but it can be very sticky in places, especially if wet.' Hmmm. Sounds almost like another Survival Of The Fittest to me.