There is a local legend that many years ago there were two twins whose husbands both went missing on the same night when their ship out of Maryport foundered in a storm. They wandered each day up from Troutbeck to the top of the Kirkstone Pass in the hope of seeing their menfolk returning and [...]
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We went to the Mortal Man last night for a family dinner. For a change we sat in the restaurant rather than the bar and we enjoyed this view from the table.
View from The Mortal Man Restaurant Stunning!
I’ve been a bit quiet of late as we’ve been away on holiday and as soon as we got back we had to get into preparing our new Troutbeck lodge – Troutbeck View. We’ve been putting our backs into it all week and we now have my sister in law “road testing” the lodge to [...] 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! [...] I took Suki round Ing Bridge yesterday for the first time for a while. Recently we’ve all been a bit pre-occupied with getting the new Lodge, Troutbeck View, up and running, so it was good to get out even though it was a bit overcast. The hedgerows seem to have erupted since I was [...] People do ask me sometimes “why do you bother with Twitter?” There are several answers to this, but one of the most important is the way it helps me to meet other local people who are also involved in the tourism industry. One of these is Mark Elliott who runs “Better Photos” ( http://www.better-photos.co.uk/ ) Mark tweets [...] Ok , so it’s not exactly the White Nile, but an expedition to see where the beck begins its journey had been on my list of walks to to do for some time now. I set of on Thursday morning bright and early armed with a rucksack full of wet/cold weather clothes, map, compass etc [...] I’ve had an outstanding task for a few months now since I told www.walkingworld.com that I’d add a circular walk up from Troutbeck up to Orrest Head. This is a lovely gentle walk up tothe top of one of the lowest fells in the Lakes. At only just over 750 feet it hardly qualifies as [...] It’s a bit fierce out there just now with sleet lashing the lodge. It’s amazing how the landscape changes. I love the shapes of the dry-stone walls marking out the characteristic lakeland sheep folds in the snow.
Troutbeck Valley in Snow
The Mortal Man has now lost its “The Mortal Man Experience” sign – the brainchild of the last owner who seemed to be intent on trying to fill it with vodka and champagne cocktail slurping yuppies. That didn’t work did it ? Now that it’s been turned back into a grand Lake District pub again with [...] |
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