A friend of ours has been honing her videographic skills by making a short movie of Jenkin Hill Cottage, shot over a period of an hour, and starring our regular guests, Peter and Tricia, the video can be seen here.
Many of our regulars have already met Digby, Christine’s little dog. For those who haven’t, this picture was taken by Boyd, one of our long time regular guests.
Digby the dog
We are pleased to have extra buses through the village on the X5 Keswick/Workington route, which provides a roughly hourly service through the day. These extra buses run until 3rd September. Download the timetable.
The Basenthwaite Ospreys have returned to the area, but instead of using their previous nest on Dodd they have decamped and set up a new nest on the West side of the Lake, not far from us here. This does mean that, for the moment at least, there is no nestcam in place – it was set up above the old nest. A good view of the nest can be seen through the telescopes at the Dodd viewpoint.
The first daffodils of 2011 are blooming in the hedgerows already. These are just 20 yards up the road from us, and soon the lane to the village church will be lined by hundreds of yellow blooms. The daffs in our garden are well in bud so we have those to look forward to.