Elterwater; Old friends

We braved the heart of the Lakes on a Bank Holiday to spend quality time with our oldest friends and their all growed up daughter, a strong contender for favourite godchild (I tell them all that they're in the top 3 lol). After the last few weeks it was wonderful to be able to relax into the company of people I love and trust, we may not see each other often enough, but true friendship seems to survive that, conversations just pick up where they left off moons ago, punchlines delivered before the joke, drinks ordered without needing to ask.

We met up at the same hotel we stayed at in February, so we were prepared for the peacocks - our friends were mostly incredulous and amused. The one in extras seemed v-e-r-y intent on getting in to what would have been our room when we stayed!