Ullswater

Day in the garden and an evening swim with C&P. Bloomin’ chilly by the time we got there!

It got a bit strange as we were about to head home when a guy staggered towards us asking us to call the police because he had no battery charge left on his phone. He was only vaguely coherent but said the other men in the next layby had threatened to kill him. I gave him my phone to make the call and he rang 999 but then ended the call and gave the phone back. We offered to take him to Pooley Bridge and drop him off there, which we did.
Meanwhile the police had registered the call from my phone and had tried to ring back so I called 101 to explain and they followed it up. No idea what transpired but no sooner had we headed off again and passed through Tirril there was Mr Veneering, back again, and in the middle of the road looking as weirdly red as ever. There must be some alignment in the stars that’s bringing them all out this weekend.