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Lesson 1: Pâte Brisée / Tarte aux Quetsches
First Lesson CompletedLet's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start...All fine, no disasters, apart from not being careful enough lifting out of the oven - I need to get used to a dish...
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Lesson 2: Pâte Sablée / Tarte à l'Orange
All good, and tasted very nice, cooked for dinner with MJ & Ellen.Notes for next time:For cornstarch read cornflour Continued rubbing in for a while (4), could have probably done moreOrange juice +...
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Lesson 3: Pâte Brisée Fondante / Tarte aux Fruits Rouges-Pistache
Cooked for the Brookings who came round for dinner last night. Very straight forward.Pastry made and prickedFilled almost to the brimAfter cooking, around 45min @180Cooled and servedNotes for next...
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Stanley Force
This was a gentle warm up afternoon walk after driving up from Birmingham that morning on the way to our cottage. We parked in a car park that is just south of the main road driving up the Eskdale...
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Yewbarrow
The first walk proper on this holiday was from the cottage we were staying in. Possibly one of our favourites to date, this National Trust property was brilliant. The obvious walk was up Yewbarrow,...
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Seatallan
So let's be honest, this wasn't the kind of walk you would do if you weren't aiming for Wainwrights, but the nice thing about it is that you have an excuse to get out when there's not much view and...
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Around Wast Water
We set off knowing that this was a quite a long walk, but felt it was really worth the opportunity to do another walk from the house, get all the way around Wast Water and pick up the two Wainwrights...
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Hard Knott in the snow
The forecast promised more bad weather, and after the previous day journey around Wast Water in the cloud we weren't immediately keen on another long walk. So we planned to visit Hardknott Fort and...
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Kirk Fell
This was a walk that I wasn't at all sure that we could do, given it was significantly higher up for Poppy, not exactly short, and the weather still wasn't great. Still, we could always chicken out of...
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Lingmell (not Scafell)
So we set off with high hopes of a high walk - know that Scafell Pike was reachable from the house was too good an opportunity to miss. We were even keen enough to walk from the house, this time...
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Green Crag
We were leaving this day, and had a shorter walk planned which had the excuse of driving over Hardknott Pass. However, on getting to the start of the pass we discovered that some bright spark had...
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We never meant to go to Helvellyn
The plan for this walk to do the ridge north of Helvellyn. We parked at the car park at the north end of Thirlmere, after driving up from the Drunken Duck following a hearty breakfast. I love...
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Steel Fell from Grasmere
After missing out on Gibson Knott with the girls, this seemed like a good walk to do, and not just as it would annoy them! However, it was also quite a bit shorter than the previous day, which was...
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Mopping up the Langdales
We'd done a few walks in the Langdales before, but not covered this exact ground, so it was a good choice to end the weekend on. We parked in one of the car parks by the hotel at the bottom of Dungeon...
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Catbells in the rain
The first day of the trip wasn't very promising, with lots of rain forecast. We thought a simple (and short) introduction was called for, so Catbells was the ideal target. Despite Evie's protests the...
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Causey Pike & Sail
This was the second day, and after the disappointingly short walk of the day before we were going to take full advantage of the nicer forecast. This was the first walk we were able to do from the...
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Grisedale Pike
One thing I had tried to do for this week was involve Isabelle and Grace in route planning. Isabelle had planned quite an ambitious walk, but Grace's was a bit shorter and lower, so given the weather...
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Dale Head
The second walk we did from the house: another one where we had an ambition to do the full horseshoe, but had the option after High Spy to come back along the valley. That's what Caroline and I had...
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Robinson in the snow
One obvious walk we had put off was to get Ard Crags and Knott Rigg - they were right above our house, and we had walked them three years earlier with Poppy in the carrier and actually walked right...
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Grasmore and Rannderdale Knotts
We finally had a day that didn't promise rain or snow, so was the chance we were waiting for to do Isabelle's walk she had planned. Evie had seen what was going on, so wanted to get in on the walking...
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