Lee Dixon

TIME FOR THE LAST LOT OF PICTURES TAKEN WHILE WE WERE AWAY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. On one of our walks we went on, well I won’t say we went all the way up a mountain but it felt high, I’m sure the air was getting thin   . We parked at Dodd Woods, next to  The old sawmill  and followed the river running down it. A good way up we stopped at a group of birds watchers who showed us a few locations about half a mile away with their spotting scopes. Great views right across Bassenthwaite Lake. 

After the last few months of worry over our youngest son and his health, and the doctors telling us we shouldn’t take him abroad, we had to cancel our holiday to Cyprus. It was a shame as we have wanted to take our boys to where we got married for many years now, maybe another time.   For our last few breaks we have spent them at Center Parcs so this time we thought we would try somewhere new. We found a place in Keswick called  Keswick Reach Lodge Retreat .  Very new and very nice, not much on site, but only a 20mins drive into Keswick centre.  On arriving in the Lake District we first stopped off at  Castlerigg Stone Circle ,  it is among the earliest British circles, raised in about 3000 BC during the Neolithic period. After that we moved onto  Keswick Climbing Wall  which was just down the road for the boys to spend sometime climbing the walls!!

 May was a month of many new things. After almost a year of my boys and wife going "can we have a dog, can we have a dog" I finally gave in. After not much of a long search we came across a really nice organization that tries to re-home dogs, cats, rabbits and other smaller animals.  Animal care  were very good and not at all pushy, we could take as many dogs as we wanted for a walk (one at a time of course), but it was our second one that the whole family, and yes me as well fell for. Liam, soon to be re-named Kylo is a cross breed Jack Russell with a lot of energy, but also just loves to chill and sit on you. He is 2 years old and loves to chase cat, also one of our neighbors has just got chickens which is driving him mad. We have only had him a month and he already feels so much part of the family it's like he has always been with us.

Here are a few of my favourite pictures I took in December.  Lots happened in this month including a visit from our Christmas Elf which got upto lots every day.

  Time to give this blog of mine some love: Took my boy's to see Charles Chipperfield Circus last night, it was good, not as many acts as I thought there might be, but good none the less.

 And now we quickly move on to March's camera and me album.    There are images from things I have found around work, a trip to Dunham Massey Hall, a concert we went to see Michael Bublé at, and my bike track ride to work.

 For 2014 February Camera album we managed to get out to our local zoo and a couple of parks.

I am way, way behind on posting to this blog. I know I said I would update it often, but as alway best plans and all that!!  Anyway I thought I would start by catching up on my monthly camera pictures, so here's my favourites from January.