Not every hotel has it's own bandstand, though sadly this one at Everglades Hotel in Widnes is not one of the cast iron jobs from the Lion Foundry in Kirkintilloch but entirely made of timber.

Miss Flum took off on her motorbike to meet a friend while Mr Flum and I pottered home along the by-roads through the lakes, stopping in Coniston for a snack in a brief spell of pouring rain. Later we stopped in Penruddock to pick up our winter supply of birdfood and a new squirrel-and corvid-proof feeder from the excellent Birds Bistro.