Date & start time: Monday 2nd January 2009.

Location of Event : The red phone box, Loweswater , Cumbria, Uk ( NY 143 211 )

Places visited : Local

Highest point : The scenery

With : Ann and the dogs, Harry and Bethan.

Weather : Reasonable overnight snow and occasional showers during the day.

Bethan taking in the unusual scene - a white garden

We woke to overnight snow, as did most of the country.

The forecast for Cumbria was that snow was possible but heavy falls would be confined to the Pennines and the East Coast

Today though, there was more than we expected, and the scene was delightful.

Harry out for a morning stroll.

Behind him, Whiteside lives up to it's name.

Picture postcard stuff as I glimpse over the hedge to Mellbreak and Hen Comb.

The Red Phone Box - have I ever told you it's a Grade 2 Listed Building ?

Up the road, Rose Cottage and the Vicarage . . . Guess which one is available for holiday lets !

Breakfast for this lively pair.	Searching for a nut he buried earlier.

Puffin land.

There's sufficient snow to turn everything white.

The roads are covered but it's melting now in the sunshine.

Back to Plan A and a trip into Cockermouth for essentials in case the snow lasts.

The view back up Lorton Valley on our return includes the misty outline of Hopegill Head, Whiteside and Grasmoor.

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Technical note: Pictures taken with with my Cannon G7 or Ann's Ixus 75 Digital camera.

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