BB1733 : The Money Fairy

Wednesday 27th September 2017

Walking along the track from Ings towards Sour Howes, Stan suddenly stopped and said “Look at this!”  He had found a one pound coin and a twenty pence coin on the track.

Believe or not, about five minutes later, Stan suddenly stopped and said “Look at this!”  He had found another one pound coin and another twenty pence coin on the track.

All we could think was that the Money Fairy was on his shoulder today.  Lucky Stan. Lottery time?

Like us, the fairy was probably keeping fairly low as the forecast for the higher peaks would have blown her away.  However, by the time we approached the summit of Sour Howes, I think she had sensibly retreated as no more discoveries of the money kind were made.

En-route we did discover a large number of hairy caterpillars, quite a few vole holes and a strange cluster of things I find hard to describe.  

They were a sort of blue and white and could almost have been sweeties that had been lost and rain-washed.  But they weren’t.  Tony informed us that sometimes beasts that ate other animals or birds found parts indigestible and regurgitated them.  He concluded that these were eggs from the inside of Lord knows what that had been sicked up by the predator.  If anyone can be more precise, please let us know.

Lunch was taken on the descent towards Troutbeck and in many ways that was unfortunate as it mean we had quit a strenuous post prandial ascent to accomplish.  This we did to reach the summit of Wansfell Pike but on the way I realised that for the second time today a footpath had not been where the OS map said it should have been.  Had Stan not been so familiar with the area we might have wasted more time looking for them.  The annoying thing is that on my phone I have new software which has the latest OS map which is supposed to be updated quarterly.  Hmm!

Our descent to Ambleside led to a dilemma.  Where to go to celebrate the day’s achievement?  The answer came quickly.  Not in Ambleside.  Not because of anything untoward about the place but simply that the 555 arrived sooner than expected so we leapt aboard back to Kendal where the same dilemma arose.

Until you realise that the Money Fairy was actually a black hearted demon who had been expelling cash from my pocket in rather greater volume than had actually been spotted by my companions.

No doubt the next folk to visit Sour Howes will be delighted with their gifts from the Money Fairy.  I hope they put their findings to similar good effect.

 Don, Wednesday 27th September 2017

Comitibus : Stan, Tony, Don

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