Chapel Beck

A squally ill tempered sort of day today, not one you'd to choose to go far on. But pooch was bouncy and playful this morning, so after a lazy coffee fueled start we saw a gap in the clouds and headed out.
We wandered around to the Centenary meadow but everything was soaked and the flowers forelorn, so we carried on to the little bridge over Chapel Beck where dippers and wagtails often play, but they too were in hiding today.
As the sky darkened and the clouds massed we decided we'd cut across the freshly mown fields and make the most of what shelter the woods offered. At the little sleeper bridge I paused and took this blip, we made it back just as the heavens opened.
I'm working in the hills for the next four days with a new (school) client from Essex assessing 3 groups on their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award Expedition. I hope it brightens for them, I always want people to be wowed by the Lake District (the forecast is 50:50, but at the start of July we have a forecast for the summits to be 0°C!).