18th August, 2013...Geocache!

Sunny but blustery day, much better than the heavy rain of Saturday (poor bride from the Abbey House wedding yesterday..she waits all summer through the beautiful weather and it rains on HER wedding day...she did look very happy though!!)

Nice to be back in walking boots again!. It was very busy down here today...everyone was going stir- crazy yesterday, having to stay indoors and stare out at the rain!

 

 

These bullocks are getting mighty tame...I make sure none of us are wearing red when we come down here for a walk...Frankie finds it hilarious!

 

I am doing my annual read of Robert Neill's Mist over Pendle at the moment. It is one of my favourite books, and the dappled woodland down here at this time of year reminds me of Pendle Forest....especially when Marjorie first finds herself a visitor there, and is taken for a gallop up to the Rough Lee. Alice Nutter... what a chilling character...she still scares me now!! That perfect, caring and compassionate front, hiding something altogether more sinister...woe betide you if she wants rid of you!! She gets her come -uppance in the end though!

 

 

 

A friend of ours introduced us to GEOCACHING in March. The global treasure hunt, using GPS on your phone. We have found a few different caches, but we've never looked for the Furness Abbey one. We had a walk today and followed the clues on my iphone. Frankie found it, signed his name, and we photographed it just to be annoying!! Give it a go... you just need to download the app.. there are lots of caches around Barrow, and we have found the How Tun Wood one, and the Dock Museum one too.

 

Frankie is FINALLY eleven on Sunday...two weeks of freedom left...!