Thursday walks with Pete have resumed. Yesterday we wandered in the fringes of The Lake District, often more rewarding than fighting to park, ascending constructed staircases or badly
eroded paths, and jostling past ever larger parties of senior citizen ramblers.
Witherslack, and the Winster valley lie within the national park and provide distant views of the Kentmere and Fairfield hills with constant reminders of the park's geology and flora.
The River Winster is modest in size relative to the expansive, flat bottomed valley it inhabits which must have housed an impressive glacier in the Ice Age. Further walks north and south of this middle section will hopefully follow.
My other half, Grumpy Knee, has never been silent since his operation. I have tried to refrain from reporting about him recently for fear of GK getting delusions of grandeur, so I tried to "walk through" his grumblings with my recent exploits, but I am afraid to say he is still an unwelcome companion. This year GK has been kowtowed to with flat river and canal trips, and yesterday's walk was deliberately mainly on Tarmac and decent paths. We only saw seven cars throughout, and nobody else walking.
Anyway, GK was recently summoned for his "annual" check-up (from a year last May), and visited a new consultant surgeon last Friday, who turned out to be a very practical, broad speaking guy who I imagined would have pragmatic, lateral thinking solutions to any physical problems - the sort of chap you would be thankful to be stranded with on a desert island. A bone scan, x-ray, and blood test have been ordered and GK now has another appointment on 6th September. I think GK is a bit frightened of this potential taskmaster.
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| The wide, broad bottomed Winster valley |
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| River Winster - sparkling clear water |
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| Tributary tumbling down from the steeper western valley side |
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| Distant views of Kentmere and Fairfield hills |
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| We popped in for a look at Witherslack church - plain and simple |
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| A good idea spotted on another walk a few weeks ago |
Here's hoping that GK is banished from all future walks!
ReplyDeleteWP - I don't want him banished, just renamed- perhaps as BK (Benign Knee).
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