Yesterday we had a good day out at Grizedale Forest in the South Lakes. The boys went to GoApe to scoot and clamber around the aerial runways whilst Fo and I had a good 7 mile walk through the forest and up to the fells above Coniston water. It was a nice view through the fluffy benches of clouds over towards the Old Man of Coniston and Goats water. For once in this forest we saw quite a lot of birdlife. There were several bullfinches and we saw a seed eater which we think may be a juvenile crossbill but could be a siskin. I was keeping an eye out for rocks from the Silurian period and saw some but never managed to find a crag which has some lovely laid out crinkly Silurian sediment. There is a photograph of this crag in one of my geology books and I would really like to see it. There was quite a bit of fungi next to the path and we found an owl pellet and some deer droppings as well. We did the identical walk from a couple of years back with the boys and even munched our sandwiches on the same bank overlooking the track. We really are that predictable! Afterwards we took Fiona's mother out for a meal at Pizza Hut in Barrow in Furness and she had a really good time. The boys are very good with their Granmum who is quite old. Finished the day off with an episode of Star Trek. Most excellent!