A murky Windermere

Trip out for bar snack with Jeff and Julia on the shores of Windermere and met J there too. The "back road" there was quite flooded on the way there so decided to come back via Newby Bridge, J would go that route anyway returning to ulverston. 3 miles on and in striking distance of the major junction we came across what I thought at first were some tiny blue garden fairy lights. Turned out to be police closing the road (with not much more than tiny blue fairy lights) as there was a tree down completely staddling the road (thank god we weren't a few minutes earlier). So all the way back along the unlit country roads and the "back road" and now we have J as an overnight guest as that tree added a 20mile detour to his less than 10 mile journey home! 10.40pm he's devouring all the food he can find in my fridge!!!