Lakes, cakes and ale
For the second year in a row, I got to spend my birthday at the Yan. It's a farm that's been turned into a restaurant with rooms, a couple of little glamping pods and cottages too. It's on the remoter side of Grasmere, heading up to the big mountains. Despite various named storms visiting the UK at this time, our few days in the Lakes were mostly fine, during daylight hours at least. The leaves were in their full glory. We walked around Rydal Water and Grasmere. We saw the sun break out over Catbells, at Derwentwater. Tarn Hows The local Herdies (Herdwick sheep) are very friendly and inquisitive. Cakes were eaten, ale was drunk, there was the traditional visit to the Grasmere gingerbread shop and Zefferilli's old cinema on Hallowe'en, to watch A Haunting in Venice. Perfection. .