Hills: Armpit Bog, sorry Armboth Fell
Classification: Wainwright (141)
When: Wednesday 19 August
Who: Me and the mountaineering minion
Distance: About 4 1/2 miles but felt like twice that
Time: Just under 3 hours
Weather: Dry and sunny, a bit windy
Post walk drink: Malbec
Post walk watering hole: The Crafty Baa, Keswick
Uses of the arse crampon: Still none. Need to send out a search party.
Mishaps: Megabog; a minor navigational mishap
After my short afternoon blast up Gavel Fell, the following day was our wedding anniversary. Normally our wedding anniversary consists of being rained on (unless we are in Egypt) and this time was no different! The enthusiasm to do a walk was somewhat lacking and we settled for a pottering about day including mini-golf and visiting a few hostelries (inevitably). Having completely failed to find anywhere to get booked in for dinner we gave up and our anniversary meal consisted of scallops with chorizo to start off with followed by rib eye steak with various trimmings. Nice but not quite what I’d had in mind and as per my previous post the sheer volume of organisation required to do anything much these days is really starting to grate – and given recent announcements likely to get worse rather than better over the next few months.