Grasmere has always been one of my favourite Lake District places, so yesterday we combined a mission to collect some gingerbread with a saunter around the village. We visited our favourite shop in Grasmere – Craglands – to collect our gingerbread voucher from Chris Shaw (@cragchris on Twitter) from whom we had won it in [...]
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Today we went to the Ullswater Show. They had a fantastic day for it . On the way in a gentleman came up and asked Linda if she’d mind coming into the ring with Suki as he was doing a demonstration about working dog breeds. Suki duly demonstrated that she does have a mind of [...] Today at 2 pm they are going to be flying hawks here at Limefitt Park in Troutbeck You can see some of these beauties. Falconry at Limefitt Park Midnight
and my favourite, thomas the American Kestrel Thomas Oh yes – and there’s free pony trekking for the kids too! [...] One of the highlights of The Lakes for nature lovers is the annual return of the Bassenthwaite Ospreys. As well as going to see the nest, just North of Keswick, now you can now follow them on the internet! // Get the Lake District Osprey Project widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing [...] Fantastic news this morning that Dubbs Reservoir, between Ings and Troutbeck, on the fell side just above our Lake District pine lodges has been reborn as a haven for wildlife. Dubbs Reservoir – A New Conservation Area The reservoir used to be an important water source but had fallen into disuse in recent years. Now after [...] Last week Heather Bayer, (AKA the Cottage Guru), cast her eye on our web site and wrote a review on her highly respected blog For those of you who don’t know of Heather she lives in Canada and writes on the subject of self-catering holiday lets. She is a highly respected international expert in the [...] We were really pleased with the lovely review of Kingfisher Lodge that a recent guest Nick Peet wrote in the Liverpool Echo, published today. Kingfisher Lodge in the Snow Beauty and peace on your doorstep Jan 5 2010 by Nick Peet, Liverpool Echo // tm.siteLife.daapi.getArticle( Lola the bulldog takes Nick Peet for a week of splashing [...] Well, we’ve just been through the Guest Survey responses from 2009 and I’m delighted to say that we’ve continued to get a great level of satisfaction. We’ve now been doing this for 3 years and we’ve made a point of trying to maintain and exceed the great start we got in 2007. Hopefully the results [...] To be serious for a moment, we self-catering operators are shortly to be shafted by the government when they repeal the Furnished Holiday Letting rules next year. This is being done to us just so that they don’t have to extend the FHL tax treatment to European based businesses owned by UK nationals. Many of us [...] I’m very relieved to be able to say that we retained our English Tourist Board four star rating at Windermere Lodge today. The guy who visited us pointed out that there are very few four star lodges around, but that our’s is “a good , solid 4 star”. It shows that all the hard work [...] |
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