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Hadn't seen any lambs locally [by the third week in February] so we went looking and eventually found these little ones over by Penrith. To be quite honest, open-field lambing seems to have been very late in the North of England this year, and in parts of Wales as well. Maybe the grotty weather this time last year resulted in a late "tupping" season for this year [Tupping is putting the rams in with the ewes].

Hadn't seen any lambs locally [by the third week in February] so we went looking and eventually found these little ones over by Penrith. To be quite honest, open-field lambing seems to have been very late in the North of England this year, and in parts of Wales as well. Maybe the grotty weather this time last year resulted in a late "tupping" season for this year [Tupping is putting the rams in with the ewes].

Hadn't seen any lambs locally [by the third week in February] so we went looking and eventually found these little ones over by Penrith. To be quite honest, open-field lambing seems to have been very late in the North of England this year, and in parts of Wales as well. Maybe the grotty weather this time last year resulted in a late "tupping" season for this year [Tupping is putting the rams in with the ewes].

Hadn't seen any lambs locally [by the third week in February] so we went looking and eventually found these little ones over by Penrith. To be quite honest, open-field lambing seems to have been very late in the North of England this year, and in parts of Wales as well. Maybe the grotty weather this time last year resulted in a late "tupping" season for this year [Tupping is putting the rams in with the ewes].

Hadn't seen any lambs locally [by the third week in February] so we went looking and eventually found these little ones over by Penrith. To be quite honest, open-field lambing seems to have been very late in the North of England this year, and in parts of Wales as well. Maybe the grotty weather this time last year resulted in a late "tupping" season for this year [Tupping is putting the rams in with the ewes].

Well, that was interesting - those tiny specks are five helicopters out of the six or seven that have just flown overhead, playing follow that chopper, but too far apart to get into one shot. [Put "Notes" around them, Nos.1,2 and 3 are particularly small / faint]

The gravelly beach [almost no sand as such] at the NE corner of Derwentwater [basically, Keswick beach]. Bella's wandering about, including splashing into the water. Despite being offered water, she's had a go at drinking the lake !

Towards the end of the circuit [aka cruise around Derwentwater] now, and Bella has come to terms with the launch, the engine and the spray from the bow wave. She is now looking around with great interest.

Bella paying quite close attention to the world around her.

Finally, Bella sat up enough - and being on our laps helped ! - to see over the gunwale.

The departing launch is just passing a small island, with a single tree - which *may* fit the description for one in the "Swallows & Amazons" series by Arthur Ransome.

Launch now departing ... and throwing up quite a wake. [Some of the launch drivers seemed to be in a tearing hurry, and I was wondering if the queues were slowing things down significantly, and if the Lakes speed limit was being bent / broken - I felt we were doing more than the official limit on a couple of occasions].

"Annie Mellor" the launch for our lake cruise was prone to throwing water back from her prow and over the passengers. Who got wetter also depended on the wind direction ! D & J having a laugh about it - as were some of our neighbours, although one or two moved to avoid getting too wet. [I didn't snap any images of the spray, as trying to do that was quite likely to get the camera wet]

Still a little nervous / uncertain, but now she is starting to take some interest in what's going on around her.

Having a quick peek over the side, one of several, gradually getting up to look for longer periods of time, but then ducking down again.

A nervous Bella wants to hide, just in case she *might* be doing something wrong ... sitting in the bows of the Derwentwater Launch "Annie Mellor".