Garden and salmon

It has been a glorious day with a brilliant blue sky. These pictures were all taken in the garden.
The holly is heavy with berries. (Click for a bigger picture.)

I meant to include these pictures last week although the fish are still there today.
The highest number we have seen over the week, in this part of our river, is twelve or thirteen. They are salmon and a few sea trout spawning on a new gravel bed, created by last year's floods. The salmon were very big------the largest looked to be about a metre in
length.

We are lucky to be able to see these just minutes from our house! We were actually looking for the kingfisher ,when we spotted them. This is one of his favourite haunts.

Look how clear the water is again now the river is calm again.
It must be a few metres deep at this point and you can still see the individual pebbles.

Main Street

Things are getting quieter as work teams, from outside of our area ,begin to pack up for a fortnight's holiday. In among the skips and vans our Christmas tree is still standing. Look carefully at the lower branches and you can tell which way the water ran and also how high.

Many children have been affected by the floods but have been helped as much as possible to cope with the upset. Today BBC teams were in school and that will be shown on television tonight or tomorrow we think.


Look what has appeared on every empty building in town. Every primary school child in Cockermouth must have contributed! I found it very moving to see all their messages. Their pictures showed just how much they had taken in of the drama that happened that night!

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