{"id":1167,"date":"2013-05-30T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:19:36","slug":"fair-shines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/fair-shines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair shines the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>So as I was saying, my Dearest and I had come to the conclusion that if we were to get any fun out of the coming weekend we had to put fun first. It was going to be sunny on Saturday and Sunday , but then pour with rain all day Monday, (typical Whitsuntide Bank Holiday then!), and probably Tuesday as well since I\u2019d booked a day&#8217;s leave to take my Dad to a hospital appointment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1171\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4339.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1171\" alt=\"wild flowers underfoot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4339.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4339.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4339-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wild flowers underfoot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday was to be fun day. I called my sister and planned to take her with us but she had better things to do, which is OK. Getting My Dearest out of bed, dressed, medicated and ablutions performed before lunchtime is always a challenge at the weekend, so we set off for the Lake District by 12.00, picnic packed and fuel tank filled. We took my little precious, my Mazda MX5, top down, hats firmly attached to heads and, in my case at least, sun block applied.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1177\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4402.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1177\" alt=\"Free parking for National Trust members,that's lucky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4402.jpg\" width=\"627\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4402.jpg 627w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4402-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free parking for National Trust members,that&#8217;s lucky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is an easy walk I\u2019m very fond of from Elterwater to Skelwith Bridge, it\u2019s not more than 2 and a half miles and flat most of the way and yet it passes from Lakeland village to babbling brook and marshy ground, from ancient Beech wood, to open meadows full of wild flowers and sheep, a Lake with distant views of the Langdales, and then more Beech wood with cascading waterfalls, and finally to a very nice caf\u00e9 with retail therapy opportunity for the very long of pocket.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1176\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1176\" alt=\"Typical Lakeland farmhouse in Elterwater\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4400.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4400.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4400-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical Lakeland farmhouse in Elterwater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I poked round in the shop, admiring the pretty things I had neither wherewithal nor intention to buy, while my Dearest considered whether there was anything on the menu he might eat, there rarely is in these expensive and rarefied places, he won\u2019t eat anything he can\u2019t pronounce.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1173\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4366.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1173\" alt=\"Skelwith bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4366.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4366.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4366-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skelwith bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then we wandered down to the bridge itself, sat on a slate bench under a majestic mature Beech tree whose leaves were all newly opened and as perfect as they could be, and unpacked our picnic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1170\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4321.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1170\" alt=\"if only you could smell it!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4321.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4321.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4321-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">if only you could smell it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then walked back the way we had come, there are other walks which can be taken from Skelwith Bridge, and perhaps next time we\u2019ll trek back another way but I wanted more time in that Bluebell wood, and to enjoy the wild flowers en route.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1172\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4353.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1172\" alt=\"Wood Anemone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4353.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4353.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4353-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Anemone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1168\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4315.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1168\" alt=\"Blossom by the stream\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4315.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4315.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4315-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blossom by the stream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We called in at Ambleside on our way home for coffee, I scored two more 100% cotton checked shirts in the Oxfam charity shop, \u00a32 each, bargain. We returned home tired and someone a little sun burned, but having had a Day Out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1169\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4318.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4318.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh Marigold\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4318.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4318-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsh Marigold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1175\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4383.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1175\" alt=\"An inquisitive Lamb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4383.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4383.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/1-IMG_4383-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inquisitive Lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an easy walk I\u2019m very fond of from Elterwater to Skelwith Bridge&#8230;..and finally to a very nice caf\u00e9 with retail therapy opportunity for the very long of pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,222,4,1],"tags":[340,328,338,341,336,333,979,19,133,146,339,337,145,332,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}