Whatever the weather ...!

A view from my roaming office (a Trust jeep!).

Last week we had incredibly varied weather.  Warm and sunny where it was stunningly beautiful and also weather which was wild.  I love being out in wild weather. It makes you feel alive.

Whatever the weather, the work goes on so I was out and about with Liz Guest one of our fundraisers to look at some of our next projects.  As ever, these decisions are heavily influenced by funding considerations and the search for sponsors or partners. We are constantly looking for ways to make our limited budget stretch to cover expensive work.  

What we are hoping to do next is replace a stretch of boardwalk near Keswick and to repair and maintain more footpaths.  When it is possible to do so, we now improve accessibility so that wheelchair users, pram pushers and others with limited mobility can enjoy as much as possible of this fantastic area.  The Trust was founded to protect places of historical interest and natural beauty for ever for everybody. That’s a lot of people and a long time.

One job that we hope to complete before Easter is some refurbishing and tidying of Bark House. This is a small, stone cottage near Ashness Bridge which has been used by the Scouts until recently when they decided to hand it back to the Trust.  So I’ll be going in with my volunteers to transform it for use by our recruiters.  If you are up there over Easter and we have managed to get it into use, just pop in for a chat.  You might even find a nice fire burning!

Daisy here,

Roy thinks I’m crazy just because I run everywhere.  Why walk when you can run?