Water uphill?

I know water more usually comes down Skiddaw but recently there was a rather different story!  Just before the end of the school year, a friend Paul and I carried supplies of water up Skiddaw.  Every year, all year 7 students in Keswick School do the walk to the top of Skiddaw.  This year the weather was unusually hot and the teacher who was organising the walk was considering cancelling it because of concerns that the students might not carry enough water.  This is a great opportunity for them and it would have been a shame to cancel it when there was a solution.  So Paul and I took supplies of water and deposited them should they be needed.  It seems that all went well and a great day was enjoyed by all.

 During the week I turned out with another member of the Mountain Rescue Team to High Snab Farm where one of Tom’s sheep had become stuck on a crag.  I abseiled down, caught and secured it then lowered it safely to the bottom of the crag.

Another rescue story was that of a duck!  A woman had managed to catch a mallard that had a fishing hook through its tongue and was entangled with some line.  She took it to the Trust shop and I had a call to attend the victim.  

With the help of a guy from the Keswick Launch Company, we managed to snip the hook so that we could extract it and disentangle the duck.  We put her in a cardboard box in the dark for a while until she calmed down and then we released her back into the lake where she swam off happily to join her flock.  It was nice to see her go because she could easily have starved to death if she had not been rescued.

My job is definitely not boring!

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