Sometimes you do get ...

... what you wish for! We woke up this morning to bright sunshine and after a hearty cumbrian breakfast we ventured out to the edge of the lake to take some photographs. Artistically, I am really please with the first shot but the second shot is even better memento of the trip. Since the sun was shining we decided to go and for a trip on one of the steamers on the lake - the round trip from Glenridding to Pooley Bridge and back takes about 2 hours. The scenery was breathtaking and lots of new pictures are in Simes' Gallery as a result.

After the boat trip we took a long drive out to the coast and down to a small village called Ravenglass, so small in fact that my satelite navigation gizmo didn't know where it was. So, instead I set course for Egremont, since I knew Egremont was close to Ravenglass. Egremont puts me in mind of Mike Harding's double live album "Captain Paralytic and the Brown Ale Cowboy" which I really must try to get hold of.

The target at Ravenglass was a narrow guage railway trip. Which after two hour drive was the third trip of the day for the sake of it - since we arrived when the only option left was to travel from one end of the line to the other and straight back again. This followed by another two hour drive back to the hotel via some very narrow roads - but we did get to see Coniston Water and Lake Windermere en route home.

As yesterday, Marie spent most of the day making an "awww" sound, except the sound that Marie made was more like "mu-awwww". Why, you ask? Sheep, lambs I say. It is lambing season a-go-go here, Marie even spotted one being born yesterday. She's totally sheep obsessed. Tonight, in the restaurant while I was eating the best duck I have ever had - we were being serenaded by Georgi Zamphir again and his pan-pipe rendition of songs such as Careless Whisper and Abba's Knowing Me, Knowing You .... Ahhhhh haaaaa.

This led to the two of us spending the rest of the evening mentally designing a website. Marie's Panpipe Midi Resource combined with being the ultimate web sheep resource - with song titles such as "Do Ewe Really Want To Herd Me". I could go on at length - but the sexual connotations don't bear (!!) thinking about.