Welcome Back from the Dark Ages !

At last we find the internet and can continue with our long awaited third blog.
We now know what it must of been like to live at the turn of the century, with nothing but a pen and paper to comunicate with. Many a letter or card has been written by us in the last couple of weeks.
We moved into our new house to find no O2 network cover, no internet conection, no landline and the nearest pay phone a short hike down the road. So we've spent the past two weeks trying to sort out our mobiles and are now both contactable again, albeit on different phone numbers. Also found a great deal on a sim for international calls, so anyone with a landline send us your number by email and we can chat. Its amazing what can be found when necessity dictates.

 We spent this week exploring our local area. We ran off to the village of Cartmel, where they hold a food market on the third Friday of each month. We shopped and shopped well. We purchased kilos of cheese for midnight snacks, smoked, spiced and goats, any cheese you can imagine we found. We bought some venison, which will be a first for B1 and are waiting for a good BBQ day to cook it. Any hints or recipes will be appreciated.

 One thing we noticed recently about the UK is the variety and choice you have when you select a wine. In Oz it seems that Australian wine is the way to go, but here we can choose from many countries and varieties. We are still choosing Australian though.
Does that make us Snobby???

The archetechture here is amazing, especially considering how long ago a lot of them were built. Cartmel village dates back to the 1300's, and this is their Priory Church. The priory has gone but the church is still standing and used every sunday.

 Today we had to walk to Newby Bridge to use the internet. A 3+ mile walk, each way. This photo to the left is the view of the village we now live in on the way out of town. It is a little bit bigger than it looks in the picture, but not much. We have a pub and a post office! Its all about the post office!

Today was the first t-shirt day of the season (thats what they call it up here, the season, not summer or spring or anything).
B2 definately made the most of it and tomorrow should be just as good so we're going out and being tourist, gardens, lakes, the works. For now, we better go, its getting dark and we still have the 3 mile walk home, after a couple of pints.

We look forward to updating you in our next blog.

Tomorrows another day!