This being said it has only been since the beginning of the week where my body has plain given up and I have had no choice but to rest for a while. Saturday was Brampton market, and as usual I came home with the days takings and hefty bartered swag from the other traders. It was Mothers Day on Sunday and I was whisked away to the Lakes for the day. It was beautiful Spring weather and we went to Grasmere for a wander around Wordsworth's daffodil garden as they are all out in force.

We stopped at the riverside tearooms for a lovely lunch overlooking the water opposite the church and Wordsworth's final resting place. I was drinking a lot of tea as I had no voice at all at this point, and it was spectacular. Everything just fell right - the kids were well behaved (and given that Alex had a piece of cake the size of her head, what could she possibly be grumpy about?) and enamoured with looking for shoals of tiddlers in the river while we ate. We wandered around the village, stopped at the gorgeous bookstore (this is my favourite indy bookstore - tiny space, but could quite happily ready every book in there - it is such a well thought out place) and got our gingerbread before heading over to Ambleside.
Once there we get our apple pie and head for the park. The place was packed given it was such beautiful weather and it was lovely just being in the sun.
Ended the day at Castlerigg - my Spirit home.

Really happy day.
Since then I have had my crash and slept a lot in between coughing. Mam and David came by yesterday which was good, and today I have mustered enough energy to nip to Costco and to do some gardening. I have hit eBay in a big way and the packages are arriving, mainly with party supplies and bits and bobs for Maya's birthday but I did treat myself to a new camera. I cannot tell you how much I have missed my camera. The last lens went kaput just before Christmas, and the little snap camera I got from a local selling page was naff. I figured we could not get the ideal one I would like, so a good, older model replacement would do until I could do a big upgrade. So a couple of days ago I spotted a Nikon D100 bundle and bought it. It arrived today. I am very happy.

Alex got to help with the digging too. She may have eaten some of the soil. She was very happy too.
Good times.



