The rest of Sunday was spent taking a picnic with us on a little hike in the Lake District. You can’t beat the scenery there. Huge mountains, trees, the lake, hidden waterfalls, caves and little streams. We hiked together whilst Syl carried Mable a lot of the way on his shoulders. We must look like such a normal family to others. As people walked past, they said hello, and good afternoon and gave friendly smiles. It was lovely to feel a bit of normality.
We found a beautiful waterfall and sat with a picnic blanket whilst we ate the feast which Maria had prepared for us. We told jokes, laughed and played pooh sticks together. Dropping sticks into the stream from a bridge, and racing to the other side to see whose stick had got there the quickest. I placed a little spell on the sticks so t
