Merry Christmas

Well we hope you and your pets have had a lovely Christmas :):)
It is Honey`s first Christmas with us as last year she was still with her mum and brothers and sister.
Would Santa know where she now lives ??? you bet he did .....ha ha ha.

                                                              which one is for me ??

After a fairly lazy Christmas day it is such a lovely Boxing day morning we decide to have a walk to a local pub where on Boxing day every year vintage vehicles of all description and steam engines have meet up,it is a lovely sight to see and very popular with the locals and visitors alike.

So that's the Christmas pud walked off for another year .... I wish   ha ha ha ......
We just get home in time as it is now raining ,so feet up and watch a bit of telly we think ....

new voluntary job

Just in the last few weeks I have taken on a new voluntary job as "Footpath Warden " for the village where I live.
I saw the job advertised in our local newspaper ,and as I walk Honey every day I thought I would apply.
There are two of us who are going to job share the role,and as there are 47 paths to be walked we will be kept busy enough :)
The public footpaths and bridleways have to be walked at least once a year and notes kept of any problems which will have to be reported back to the borough council ,I suspect with my love of walking with Honey will mean we will walk them much more often and become a regular feature that people will be meeting along the paths.
I am looking forward to this new addition to the routine of my week, and to it making our daily walks more interesting by making them more varied without always travelling far from home :)

Lets get to work .....

Honey looked so funny stood in the back of the hubby`s van this morning whilst he was loading up for his days work that I just had too share the experience :)

                                                         She is just sooooo cheeky :):)

Lake District

Honey has packed her blankets and chewies as we are off to the Lake District on holiday and Honey is coming too :)
We are going to stay at the Derwentwater Hotel in Portiscale near Keswick, hubby and I have stayed there before, so we know the layout for taking Honey along will be fine, and we have booked her in with us in advance.
We thought it would be nice to have a "chilly out " week before the Christmas festivities begin :)
The weather was wet and miserable on our journey to the Lakes but thankfully it stopped the next day so we managed a few walks without getting too wet.
In Keswick town centre ,just on Station Road is the Leisure Centre and from here is the start of a walk along a disused railway track.The four mile walk takes you along the river Derwent and to the lovely village of Threlkeld.This was the ideal place to have a spot of lunch at the very welcoming public house called the "Horse and Farrier " where we and Honey were made very welcome muddy boots and all :)

So refreshed we head back on the four mile walk to Keswick.

The snow capped mountains looked spectacular ,but we decided to keep to the lower fells and visit some popular tourist villages like Grasmere and Ambelside.