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!!

TomTom has decided to celebrate Star Wars Day—May 4th—with a Darth Vader voice for their GPS devices, complete with Imperial March playback, rattling lightsabers, and flying TIE Fighters. And there are more Star Wars characters coming soon: The annoying C-3PO will be released in June. Yoda will give you directions backwards in July. And if you want to be told your driving is too cocky, Han Solo will tell you so in August.