Windermere – FIONA GLASS

Lakeland winter

Like most of the UK we've been having a sudden, severe cold snap here in Cumbria. Overnight temperatures have plummeted (it was minus 10c the night before last, which is…

Music

Six drummers drumming

We had an absolute treat on Thursday evening in the shape of a concert at the Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness by taiko drumming group Mugenkyo. According to their own…

Two have an Easter walk

I'm still re-discovering my legs after Covid but this morning's weather was too nice to just hang about indoors. So we set off into the countryside at the back of…

Lunch with a view

A couple of weeks ago we met my good friend and fellow writer Angela King (The Blood of Kings) and her husband for coffee. We chose the Windermere Jetty museum…

Two get sleeted on

Let's go to Ambleside for our daily walk, we said. It's quiet, the weather's not too bad, it'll be nice, we said. So off we toddled. By the time we'd…

Stocks or pillory?

Earlier this week we met up with our best friends from Birmingham days, who were staying in the north-west for a few days. It was a damp, drizzly day, not…

Taking flight

The Library of Rejected Beauty is one of those wonderful ideas that only comes along occasionally, but once it does you wonder that nobody thought of it before. Basically, it's…

Two find some early snowdrops

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Yesterday's Daily Walk (TM) took in some of the maze of back lanes and footpaths around the town of Windermere including Birthwaite Road and Old College Path. It's a fascinating…

Two go for a toddle

There was a sudden cold snap last week, with a couple of snowfalls and a lot of nasty black ice. By Sunday, although it wasn't brilliant, it had warmed up…

Streams large and small…

One of the things I love about Windermere is the sheer number of streams that wriggle their way down through the streets to the lake shores below. One or two…