Cadres Visit to Cumbrian Lakes

Towards Ambleside, Lake Windermere.

On the weekend of the 13th to the 16th November the cadres of the Empire travelled to Cumbria, as God intended, by Pendelino, to stare at rain and sheep. Cumbria has the wettest rain in the Empire and the best sheep. The rain was freely available, the sheep less so, but some were amenable to being stared at. Grassmere was particularly wet and sheep strewn as can be seen from the following photographs. - click to enlarge each photograph.

Colour competition: Cadres Anoraks (5) vs. Local trees (5).

How are the mighty fallen!

The rain at Grassmere

Rivers and footpaths in spate;

Chat and hot chocolate.

Haiku Is

The Ladies who Stare at Sheep (C in C Cumbria and Dormouse Droad rt.)

This visit turned out to be held in a week when the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the British Isles fell over the lake district. There were numerous records broken for three day totals from 18 to 20th November (Seathwaite managed 372.4 mm.) numerous bridges were broken, Cockermouth and its people were a noticable flood victim and a policeman died when the bridge he was controlling at night disintegrated underneath him on the river Derwent. Seathwaite had the highest total in 24 hours on record, some 314.4 mm ending at 00:45hrs on 20th November. All this was caused by a front. associated with a low 958 mb to the west, becoming stationary over the area for two and a half days. Thanks to the best Met Office in the Empire for this info. see: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20091120.html