Coniston Water

General

Elliott was good today. During the boat ride he did go a little quiet towards the end but it turned out he needed the toilet. Fortunately there wasn’t much of the trip left and he hung on until we’d got back to shore.

Activities

After breakfast we went to the Langdale so Andrea could finalise some funeral arrangements as they had wi-fi there. Elliott and I played pinball on the public computers there and we also explored the swimming pool and spa area. He also spoke to you on the phone. After Andrea had finished we drove to Coniston Water where we had a picnic lunch by the lake.

After lunch we were hoping to hire bikes so we could go on a bike ride by the lake, but unfortunately they didn’t have any bikes left to hire. So instead we went on a boat ride around the river where we saw the site of Donald Campbell’s Bluebird water speed records and eventual demise, the island from Swallows and Amazon and lots of people boating and water skiing:

After the boat ride we popped in to the Bluebird café by the lake for tea and cake before heading back to the Langdale for Andrea to do some more organising. We also ate at the Langdale and Elliott had macaroni cheese. After we got back to the cottage Elliott had a bath, wrote some more in his diary and we read some more Jack Stalwart before bed time.