This
will be my final post from Cumbria for a bit as I am returning to
Crete on Friday. Once there I shall be putting the little cottage
that Christina and I lived and loved in for fourteen years on the
market. Crete is a great place for two but rather lonely for one.
This means that I shall have to find somewhere to live here in
Cockermouth and with that in mind I thought we’d take a look at
some chalets on the outskirts of town.
Certainly
can’t fault the view and good walking country too. The River Cocker
flows just beyond those trees down there but we’re high enough up
to be out of the flood zone. In the distance lies Grisedale Pike,
Grasmoor and Whinlatter Forest Park just waiting to be explored in
the Spring.
The
chalets, I have my doubts about. Many of them are holiday lets and,
as it’s rather exposed up here, I think it may not be much fun in
the winter and it will probably cost a fortune to keep warm. Anyhow, I’ll bear them in mind.
On
a practical level let’s take a time check and see how long it takes
to walk into town. The chalets are situated just off Simonscale
Lane which we visited back in the summer. It looks very
different today with just a few haws to provide a splash of colour.
If we cut through this little housing
estate there should be a path leading through a wood…
...that will lead us down to the
river...
...which will take us to the little
lane that runs by Tom
Rudd Beck where, in this hazel coppice where the catkins are
ready to release their pollen to the wind, I’ve just seen a Red
Squirrel.
Here we are at the top of town in a
little under half an hour but I noticed that it was downhill all the
way which means it would be uphill all the way home – most likely
carrying shopping. I think we’ll look for a flat in town. Oh look,
the snowdrops are out. How nice.
Meanwhile, if anyone is interested in
buying a detached, two bedroomed cottage on the south east coast of
Crete between Ierapetra and Makry Gialos please message me via
facebook.
Although
insects and other creepy-crawlies are very thin on the ground still
at the moment that’s no reason not to buy a book about them. Get to
know them before they arrive in all their varied forms.
Crete
Nature Catch-up
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