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Monday, January 16, 2006
A weekend full of delights
Saturday I climbed up The Old Man of Coniston via Jack Diamond's path. I couldn't see anything because I was in cloud pretty much the whole way from the car park, but this made it quite exciting! On the way I passed a couple of blokes sat on a rock having a rest. I carried on past them, pretending to know the way, stopping a few minutes later to 'rest' (figure out where I was). The two blokes passed me, then stopped a little further up. I then passed them and stopped, and so on. It was so cloudy we couldn't make out any features so it was nearly impossible to work out where we were on the map! We finally admitted to each other that we were lost, and, after another 1/2 hour of wandering about, my companions decided to give up and head back. Which was very sensible given that we could have been anywhere. But I had a hunch I knew the way, and headed off in what I felt was the right direction. After 10 minutes I hit a very distinct path and after that it was easy. I even got to see some wonderful views on the way down as the cloud cleared.
On Sunday we went to a reclamation yard for a shelf to put up over our fireplace. We found just the thing, and it was only £35. We put it up, painted it and it looks wonderful.
In the afternoon I went for a run in the rain, through weird rock-filled fields round the back of our house. I don't normally go in this fields because they're usually filled with sheep and cows, but they were empty so I investigated. It was nice.
I like weekends like that.
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