Venturing out after being hunkered down all day, we went shopping for bread and milk. I was amazed to see the Space Shuttle still being used on cereal boxes. Here's one on this week's shreddies.
Is it still relevant to kids?
Braving hefty late-afternoon gusts of Storm Eowyn we met this cute buffeted duck sheltering behind our legs near the Derwent Water shore. Aw! Do you like ducks?
Keswick's ring of peaks was even moodier in the stormy dusk tonight.
The Lakeshore's ducks walked toward the warm glow of the houses to roost beside the park.
This igloo dining table caught my eye.
After being blasted by Eowyn we sought solace and pizza in Pockets bar and bistro.
Walking home we nipped into the North West's premier supermarket chain, Booths.
Kendal Mint Cake was aplenty. Do you know it?
Aether Ransomes Swallows and Amazons was on offer, a famous Lakeland kids adventure. Do you know it?
And as we left this beautiful travel poster reminded us of our hiking destination tomorrow, Castlerigg Stone Circle. Have you been?
I was born in Christchurch, NZ, and my only memory of my home town is feeding the ducks down by the River Avon, and the Weeping Willow trees along the river.
ReplyDeleteI certainly remember the Swallows and Amazon books, and must have read most of them.
I had to look up which of the Lakes Swallows and Amazons was set on Paul. It's not here on Derwentwater as I thought. It's Coniston water.
DeleteThe university is home to many ducks, they have been adopted as an unofficial mascot! Castlerigg is an impressive circle, with many of the stones still in place. With its position in a kind of natural amphitheatre, you could quite imagine a Quatermass Conclusion kind of gathering! It been a good few years since I was there, back in my paleo-obsessive days!
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Ha ha! A younger Wotan! 4500 years old!
DeleteThe Space Shuttle, having been decomissioned and following two spectacular and very public and tragic losses, is very much a thing of the past. If any child has any curiosity about space, its probably centrered around the ISS or the Spacex programme, with its regular launches of Musk's obtrusive cubesats! Bill
ReplyDeleteThere's a manned moon landing soon isn't there?
DeleteI love that space shuttle being used on a modern cereal box Woodsy. The cereals I buy for the Berg household never have space themes so maybe the next time I'm wandering down the cereal aisle I'll take a look at what's out there.
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