Welcome to a New Week!

[Frasermac]

Good morning from Lakeland ?
The perfect way to start your new week. SG Bothy Flake and a macchiato in the bothy ?
Last shift tonight then three days off, the weather is looking fine and the mountains are calling!
Have a wonderful week you lot.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

No mountains here in London I shall have to make do with Battersea Park. No bothy either ?
I am an SG man, particularly Full Virginia Plug, Brown No 4 rope, and Cabbies Mixture.
No latakia or aromatics for me, but good luck to you.

 

[Rattray]

Indeed, it is. Lucky you, frasermac. The Lakeland district is simply spectacular and visiting and doing some serious hiking there is a top item on my bucket list.

 

[Frasermac]

…and out of curiosity, how long are you a “new member” for???

 

[Ettrick puffer]

Good morning from Lakeland ?
The perfect way to start your new week. SG Bothy Flake and a macchiato in the bothy ?
Last shift tonight then three days off, the weather is looking fine and the mountains are calling!
Have a wonderful week you lot.
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Enjoy ! ? plus pipe = relaxation ?
Happy smokes
Ettrick puffer

 

[Frasermac]

Enjoy ! ? plus pipe = relaxation ?
Happy smokes
Ettrick puffer

Cheers pal!
We’re not so far apart (and technically I’m a doonhamer but don’t hold that against me ?)

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

…and out of curiosity, how long are you a “new member” for???

After 100 posts become a member
300 posts senior member
500 posts preferred member

 

[mso489]

My all time favorite Lakeland is Brown Sugar Flake, but it's hard to get in the U.S., so I recently bought some G&H Scottish Mixture. My wife and I stayed at a resort in Windermere that we found preferred a more elaborate wardrobe than we were toting, but we stayed in Grasmere, the best, where some older folks complimented us behind their hands saying we sure didn't seem like Americans. We enjoyed an English music hall review and walking home in the 10 p.m. twilight, that far north. Old gents drifted past in the fog, puffing their pipes.

 

[Frasermac]

My all time favorite Lakeland is Brown Sugar Flake, but it's hard to get in the U.S., so I recently bought some G&H Scottish Mixture. My wife and I stayed at a resort in Windermere that we found preferred a more elaborate wardrobe than we were toting, but we stayed in Grasmere, the best, where some older folks complimented us behind their hands saying we sure didn't seem like Americans. We enjoyed an English music hall review and walking home in the 10 p.m. twilight, that far north. Old gents drifted past in the fog, puffing their pipes.

….music hall? Old gents drifting past in the fog? Was this during the war???
I’ll have to take your word for it, I’m Scottish so here in exile!
Grasmere/Windermere etc are places we avoid.

 

[Frasermac]

After 100 posts become a member
300 posts senior member
500 posts preferred member

100 posts or comments??????
I’ll be long gone before I reach the first rung?

 

[anotherbob]

100 posts or comments??????
I’ll be long gone before I reach the first rung?

unless you're in hospice, you're already making solid headway. Cheers and welcome aboard.

 

[Ettrick puffer]

Cheers pal!
We’re not so far apart (and technically I’m a doonhamer but don’t hold that against me ?)

@Frasermac guid tae see a doonhamer here mate ??
Happy smokes
Ettrick puffer

 

[gubbyduffer]

Cheers pal!
We’re not so far apart (and technically I’m a doonhamer but don’t hold that against me ?)

Enjoy. A doonhamer in the Lakes! I am in Peebles. Where in the Lakes are you? My inlaws have a static caravan for holidays just outside the Lakes in the Eden Valley.

 

[mso489]

Frasermac, we were tourists so I guess we went touristy places, Dove Cottage and Wordsworth's grave, etc. It was the eighties, but yes, the old gents were out strolling in the fog, and there was an English music hall performance which was left over from WWII, and good. We didn't get to do a real hike, but walked enough to see a lot of wandering sheep and Wordsworth's aforementioned daffodils. We got up to Edinburgh too, loved it.

 

[Frasermac]

Enjoy. A doonhamer in the Lakes! I am in Peebles. Where in the Lakes are you? My inlaws have a static caravan for holidays just outside the Lakes in the Eden Valley.

On the coast, home looks straight up Wasdale.