Eilidh and Dave went swimming up at Penrith this morning. Ben opted out as he still has the sniffles and was coughing a lot last night. After initially being upset that he couldn't go in the pool he quite happily waited for them, watched Eilidh swimming from the viewing gallery and ate an ice-lolly!! Eilidh is doing brilliantly with her swimming, her confidence in the water has really come on. She seemed to spend most of her time under the water or jumping in and seems quite happy without armbands now.

After swimming we went onto the Home Ed group at a village hall in Penrith where the kids played while we chatted and drank coffee. They were busy pretending to be Huskie dogs in a rescue centre with another little friend (you can tell Eilidh has been reading the Animal Ark books which are all about animals and rescue centres, vets and things!).

We decided to come back the scenic way from Penrith so we drove down to Pooley Bridge at the foot of Ullswater then all the way down the lake & up over Kirkstone Pass down to Bowness on Windermere then home. After getting the news from Fran last night that they are coming up next month & Fran admitting that she is not coming to see us - just to see some waterfalls (at least that was how Naomi put it - honest Fran I could not believe it!!! Dave.) we decided to get her some pictures to keep her going til then:

Hope you like them Fran.

There are weather warnings out for severe gales up here tonight and tomorrow so I am a little bit worried about the great big trees in our next door neighbours garden. He has got the tree surgeon coming out to sort a load of them out but not until April .....not much help now!!!