Somewhere different

That's where we went today!  Parked the car near The Watermill at Ings.  Sure I heard it was dog friendly but they didn't take me there!  In fact we crossed the main road & went up a lane past the Ings Mill Caravan Park.  We kept going up before turning on to a bridle path that took us across several fields of sheep where I was kept on a lead.  Apart from one when I found a dead rabbit to eat & of course I will not go back to mistress until I have finished. She left me so I had to be quick & play catch up!
Eventually we got to an enclosed bridle path signposted Kentmere Hall.  The views were pretty impressive & of course Pika & I had freedom to run.
We had a steep stony path to walk down after we had passed some new barn conversions.  Once again mistress thinks it would be cool to live in the countryside.  If there's lots of fields I can run about in then I agree with her.

Soggy Doggy

That was me.  Very damp indeed.  It tipped it down for the last half mile of our walk back from up the "noddle"  Yewbarrow for non locals. I class myself as a local now, we've been to Witherslack so many times I think it is mistresses second home!  The views were good as the sun was out on the top.  The Kent Estuary was clear as was Ingleborough in the distance.  The school children have shelters built in the woods on the way up where they have outdoor lessons.  Mistress says it must be great to have lessons on the outdoors in the outdoors!  Whatever that means!
Of the course she didn't think to get her phone camera out so no pictures & the ones she took up there last year can't be found!! Still no doubt we'll go up there again sometime.
There are a couple of photos of me taken yesterday on the playing field near home.

I just can't get over how handsome I am!

I found a ball which I refused to give up until after I had been in the stream for a lie down

Quick update

How beautiful are these?

 

Mistresses friend planted these as a welcome to her house.



 

 

We went for a walk through the woods to the north of Witherslack &ended up in this meadow.  Lots of good smells & space for me to run around.  So I did!!

 

This is the view to Pool Bank.  Two rather nice houses for sale but mistress they were out of her price range.  Pity, I could live next to a field like this no problem.

 

 

Look!  Plenty of room to run!

 

 

So we're back to blog.  When I'm not catching up on my sleep that is.  It's a dogs life you know.





Hiatus

Sadly mistresses friend's husband passed away very suddenly a few weeks ago so we haven't been able to blog as had been planned but hopefully we can resume soon with photos.  Blogger is being a pain & mistresses computer doesn't like blogger but the photos are on that not this one belonging to young master so she has to work out what she will do.  Me - I just do what I'm told -most of the time anyway!  I did manage to lose my nose halter in the woods & it hasn't been replaced but then I haven't tried to pull mistress over lately either.

Rain, rain go away

I really am not keen on walking in the rain. Especially when accompanied by a howling gale. We drove to Chapel House wood near Newby Bridge so there was some respite but I don't like my ears blown around very much. Friend Pika came too & we dried off in front of his open fire (and I chewed his bone).  No pics it was too wet for mistress to even think about taking a camera.

i wonder if..

....... I can post from the mistresses Kindle?  Photos may be a problem but hey I can write!
A lie in tomorrow. Yeah. Young master will take me out with the ball in the morning. Mistress has walked me 2.5 miles the last 3 mornings before work, in the dark,  at a pace.  This morning I registered my protest by repeatedly sitting down.  Didn't work. I was unceremoniously dragged along. I'm sure she's on a mission to get herself fit / lose weight. Hope the master can start walking me more soon if his foot gets better. I think mistress is secretly hoping so too!  Night. Night.

Try again

2014 was a year I said hello to new friends & goodbye to old ones.  That's life.
Mistresses good friend - the one at Witherslack with the good woodland walks close by - said hello to Kruger her Mums old dog who she could no longer look after.  He was a lovely old boy, sadly didn't have long for this world but a loving home to end his days.  Couldn't ask for any more than that.
Mistress has seriously messed up & lost pictures of him!
However he was a relative of Pika who now resides at Witherslack.  Pika is a retired stud dog & mistress says he is such a gentleman.  Whatever one of those is?

We said goodbye to young mistresses dog Simba.  She stayed with me sometimes.  Mistress stayed with her at the vets & held her paw.  Seems she's lost those photos too.  Really.

RIP Simba.

 

Master is currently unable to walk me due to having had an operation so mistress takes me out before she goes to work & again when she comes home.  We haven't told her master takes me out with the ball in the afternoon!!

 

Young master is now at college, wants to work with electric or something but mistress thinks he may join the army.  He did scrub up well for his school prom though. 



 

 

Well I'm going to try & get back on track with this blog m'larkey.  Mistress has a new camera lens & a bag to carry it all in so as long as it stops raining soon there will be more pics.

This was taken last Sunday.

 



 

Update

Having problems with blogger so I may just have to start again elsewhere.  Infuriating to keep losing pictures & posts & then errors popping up all over the place! Especially as I have a new companion to walk with at weekends.

RIP Henry me old chum

Poor Henry died suddenly but peacefully yesterday.  A brain tumour I understand.  I send hugs & kisses to his master & mistress.

Grizedale Forest

First time in ages that mistress has let me near the computer.  We have been walking but haven't had the camera. 
Today though we went to Grizedale Forest to drop young master off for his practise expedition for the Duke of Edinburgh bronze award & mistress decided we should go off for a walk of our own.  Flask & sandwiches packed we set off.  Now mistress did have a map but decided we'd go up Carron Crag which was way marked from the Visitor Centre.  Red post marks.  So why did she start following the green ones after we left the summit?  We walked much further than she had planned but I didn't mind apart from having to follow the road for a little way. 

Mistress didn't refer to the map once I think she said she knew the area quite well from her teenage years.  I think she's forgotten some bits.


  There are lots of wood sculptures & things in Grizedale Forest some are a bit strange.

I did share her disappointment that the pub in Satterthwaite village wasn't open when we went past, I could have helped drink her pint!  Had we waited 10  minutes it would have been open!
We had our sandwiches back at the car where upon I decided to jump in & out of the car until the dog guard fell down. Then I knocked my water bowl over.  I like to keep moving!
We drove back through the Rusland valley for mistress to reminisce back to her youth.  She spotted a for sale sign pointing up the road to Crosslands Farm where she stayed with her Mum & Dad in their caravan several times a year.  We never saw the house for sale but mistress spent 15 minutes chatting to the man who used to own the farm & talking about old times.  How on earth did she know who he was?  He didn't remember her but did remember her parents!

Banks Pond



Today was a lovely sunny, but cold day.  Master and mistress took me up to Banks Pond at Old Hutton for a run around.  The tarn is a private fishing lake maintained by Kendal & District Angling Club of which they are members.  It is quite a way along a farm track which fortunately has been re-surfaced so is easy to get up now whatever the weather. 

 

 

There is a wood surrounding the tarn which I love to run around, the freedom is great.  I have to make sure I don't get too close to the water though I fell in last time!!!

Master took the air gun for target practise  but I don't like the whoosh of the air when it fires. 



 



Little to write about

The weather has been awful for walking, we went part way up the Helme this afternoon and couldn't see a thing.  The cloud was so low.
Even the photo won't load at the moment there wasn't much to see.  I haven't been well since either so no roast dinner for me tonight which is most unfortunate.

Woodland walks

So I've been away for a while, it's been raining very wet rain & not good for picture taking.  Before Christmas I went for walks in the woods over at Witherslack with mistress and her friend who lives there.  I like going there as I can walk run off lead in many of the woodlands.  I always go back and check mistress is still there of course.  She keeps telling me I'm a good boy which I know.

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Simba came to stay for Christmas Eve and when young mistress got the vacuum out Christmas morning Simba got in the way and young mistress told her off so she went to sulk on a chair!!

I got a big chewy bone as a present but it didn't last long as I have big strong jaws!!

Today we went to another wood at Witherslack and it poured down, so we splashed through the puddles.  I've got over my dislike of rain if it means fun outside.  I just don't like going out in it if it's a routine walk!
When we got home I wanted to help master make the pastry for a steak pie but somwhow it didn't quite work out..................

Through the parkland



Mistress took me to run around some woods today but had to put me on the lead to go through some fancy parkland at Dallam Tower.  We saw deer & sheep there.
First though we went to see the Fairey Steps near Beetham.

 This parkland looked like fun to run around but I wasn't allowed.  The local residents object it seems.  I wasn't interested in them anyway .

  Can you see the deer in the

background?

 

Then we went past the Heron Corn Mill.  Now a hydro electric driven paper mill on the River Bela.  Can't see what all the fuss was about when they applied for planning, all I could see was a small building on the side!





Big Airplanes

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum

Pictures of "Just Jane" / City of Sheffield Lancaster Bomber.

 

 

We went here because they could take me, though why I should want to wander around a draughty hanger & across a damp and soggy airfield I don't know!  Young master was suitably impressed though.

Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary

There were more than seals at this place apparently but I wasn't invited.  The mistress and young master went though and brought these pictures back. I went for my adventure with the master instead.

Half term holiday

 

 What a great week!  The journey was a pain, I was stuck in the back of a car for hours!!  Well we did stop to stretch our legs twice.  The second time I met two other dogs at someones house.  (The mistress said it was her cousin Sharon's place)

When we arrived at the caravan site, Sunnydale, master took me to explore in the dark!!  so next day we all went for a long walk on the dunes.  I could run for miles, well if they hadn't kept calling me back I could have done. 

 

 

I did a big dive off a pill box but the mistress missed the landing.

 

Master took me for a long walk one afternoon and I managed to run off twice, once with a dead bird and once with a dead rabbit.  Dillon two, master one.  Ha!

A Local wander through the woods

Mistress took me and the master for a walk in some woods today.  The weather was cold but sunny.  Mistress only had her phone camera - AGAIN which means she couldn't get any action shots!

We were up a hill and the views of Kendal and the castle were amazing.

Me and the master having a breather





The sky realy was this blue



 

If it doesn't rain tomorrow we're going back with a proper camera.  Wonder if we'll stop at the pub on the way back again??