Weather: Sunny; Steps: 43739 Distance: 17 miles; Time: 9h; Calories out: 1304; Blisters: nil!
By now you probably tired of reading 'blisters nil' so I thought I'd share my secret – it's all down to Burt's Bees Foot creme. Great stuff, mind you I do spend hours looking after my feet each week. I have a foot fetish, but only for my own!
Today was as massive as predicted with a solid climb for 4 hours up to Kidsty Pike then down to Haweswater, which is the largest body of water in the Lakes, taking hours to walk along the northern side.
I owe an apology to the people of Manchester, since I was desperate for a pee and just had to go within metres of the edge of Haweswater; Manchester's water source. I guess it'll be pretty diluted out before it reaches the offices of CPPE, so no worries.
My good deed for the day was rescuing a new born lamb which had fallen into a stream. I had to climb through a wire fence to reach it. The poor thing was trying to suckle the mud and roots under the overhang at the edge of the stream. Luckily the farmer was driving round the field on his quad so we managed to flag him down and handed over the lamb. He confirmed it was just born and said that some ewes just reject their lambs if they are first time mothers. He tried to find its mum but all the ones he tried just butted it out of the way. I was quite sad watching all this so we walked on. I guess if no one claimed it he'd have to bottle feed it, at least I hope so.
By the time we got to Shap at 6pm we were pretty exhausted. Had the best meal so far in the Greyhound.
Hmm, isn't Burt's Bees foot cream a homoeopathic remedy Angela - I'm amazed at you!
ReplyDeleteAnd at least I know that with you being a vegetarian, the best meal at the Greyhound wasn't a lamb stew! What was it? Do tell us these little bits.