I wish I was there. :)
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My pleasure, it is a beautiful and inspiring area, love staying at Braithwaite and running around Causey Pike, Coledale Horseshoe and Anni Waltz routes, if i ever win the lottery i'll be buying a big house there with grounds for those who wish to camp, everyone welcome and no fees to pay, no noise after 10pm though!
Ha ha...I have a freezer full of last years soft fruits and so I may be supplying people with jam in order to make space for this years produce. I give so much away but I still end up with a surplus. I'm snowed under with onions and shallots and now potatos.
Woman on Twenty-Second Eating Berries
by Stanley Plumly
She's not angry exactly but all business,
eating them right off the tree, with confidence,
the kind that lets her spit out the bad ones
clear of the sidewalk into the street. It's
sunny, though who can tell what she's tasting,
rowan or one of the serviceberries--
the animal at work, so everybody,
save the traffic, keeps a distance. She's picking
clean what the birds have left, and even,
in her hurry, a few dark leaves. In the air
the dusting of exhaust that still turns pennies
green, the way the cloudy surfaces
of things obscure their differences,
like the mock orange or the apple rose that
cracks the paving stone, rooted in the plaza.
No one will say your name, and when you come to
the door no one will know you, a parable
of the afterlife on earth. Poor grapes, poor crabs,
wild black cherry trees, on which some forty-six
or so species of birds have fed, some boy's dead
weight or the tragic summer lightning killing
the seed, how boyish now that hunger
to bring those branches down to scale,
to eat of that which otherwise was waste,
how natural this woman eating berries, how alone.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and your lottery win! I'd definitely come and camp and I promise I'll keep the noise down...just a quiet run beneath the stars before snuggling in my sleeping bag. I'm hoping to get back up to that area again soon, it is so beautiful.
It took me a while to suss out that the 22nd referred to the street name. I was thinking the 22nd of what? March? Her 22nd helping? I'm a tad slow tonight. :)
I've been saved by blackcurrents on the side of the road before now when I bonked on my bike coming back over Kirkstone Pass.