Too sunny a day not to go out, so I caught the train to Grange-over-Sands and walked up Hampsfell. Then I looped down to Cark via Beck Side and the woods above Cartmel. Lovely colours in the slanting sunshine: gorse, holly berries, leaves (of course). Plenty of mud too. I lost my way a little a couple of times, but I’ve learned not to stray too far without checking.

The walk was not without its unnerving moments:

(Had I been brave, I would have photographed the cow before I’d safely gone past it.)