Oakdene blog

Just a short blog entry, as the B&B closed, due to my maternity, at the end of May.  We'll be re-opening in September 2011.

I wanted to share our final days / weeks as a "twosome"!  Very soon we'll have a new addition to the family.

James Kirby took these fab photos to preserve our happy pregnancy memories, do take a look.

I took a beautiful, quiet and peaceful walk up to School Knott today.  And the weather couldn't have been better - glorious sunshine and not even a breath of wind.  The walk to School Knott takes in part of the start of the Dales Way, a National Footpath which runs all the way from Bowness to Ilkey in Yorkshire.  I didn't go quite that far!  I turned off the Way and up the back of School Knott.

When I woke up this morning the sun was shining and it looked like the perfect day for a local walk.  After getting ready and heading out the door, a low mist had formed over the lake!  It didn't deter me, I went for my walk anyway!  Up to Post Knott viewpoint, dropping off the other side to make a loop, taking in Bowness.  You can download the route detail at the bottom of this blog.

Today we took the short drive over to Grizedale Forest.  The weather was resonable and allowed Chris the chance to clean off his bike and go and attack those mountain bike trails.  Being 6 months pregnant, this clearly wasn't something I was going to participate in!  I took it a little easier and explored a few kms of the many hundreds of kms of hiking trails.  You can download details of the walks at the end of this blog.

Chris and I are trying to visit as many Lake District attractions as possible so we can impart this information to our guests.  Obviously there is a lot of stuff to see and do here, and we're busy people, so we're trying to fit in what we can when possbile.  When we read in the local paper that Honister Slate Mine were doing a special offer for local residents this week, we jumped at the opportunity.

Wow, is about all I can say. It's really hard to put into words how amazing it is to be lucky enough to live in the Lake District. I just went for an easy walk round Cockshott Point in Bowness and it was simply stunning.  I'd like to share this with you, so if you get the chance for a local stroll, you too can enjoy the wonderful surroundings on our doorstep.

So I think I just about managed most things on my to do list for today! It's been a very busy day indeed. In fact this morning actually feels like days ago!  We woke up in letting room 1, in such a gigantic bed that I wasn't sure if Chris was even in there with me or not!!! He got up and went off to work from home and left me to it.  Today was the day that our B&B officially opened and I needed to race around and make sure that everything was as perfect as it could possibly be!