An earlyish start this morning as we’re now staying in a Guest House. Breakfast is served between 8 and 9.15 am. Full English breakfast is on the menu this morning. The Guest House is supposed to be 4 stars but I think it fails a little on the 4* qualities but its clean and comfortable if a little disappointing. It’s close to the town centre and all the eateries.
We’re going in search of wool today so we head for the north of the Lake District today to Cockermouth. The poet, Wordsworth’s birthplace. The Lakeland Sheep and Wool Centre is our destination. It’s supposed to be an award winning attraction. We didn’t get much chance to judge as we discovered there are no shows held on Fridays. The gift shop albeit very large is crammed with the usual array of tourist gifts. We were quite disappointed with the place especially as it had very little in the way of knitting wool. There was nothing about the spinning, carding dying and weaving of wool.
We weren’t the only ones to be disappointed as ‘Titus Pullo’ of ‘Rome’ aka Ray Stevenson was telling his girl friend the same as he past us on his way out of the gift shop. John had been the first one to spot him with his mother and girl friend looking around the gift store. With his height he’s a little difficult to miss but there were very few people around so he could shop unnoticed.
We decided to try our luck in Ambleside next, as I remembered a lovely wool shop where I bought some gorgeous natural Arran wool when we were there last many years ago. Again unfortunately we were to be disappointed as the shop was long gone and by the time we found the other only wool shop it was closed but we found a studio where two women designed and made the most exciting hand made carpets and rugs from Swaydale and Herdwick wool from the local Lakeland sheep.
We spent a little time looking around the town. It’s like all the other Lakeland town its developed very much for the tourist industry over the last few years. The development has been strictly regulated though and the whole area had kept it quaint and rural character. 
For our evening meal we decided on a promising looking Ambleside restaurant that had a delicious sounding lamb dish as it’s special of the day. The meal was OK but not as good as the Lazy Daisy and the service was strange to say the least. I mean who’s heard of a restaurant with no tea on the menu? We eat up paid up and headed back to Windermere where we went for a dessert and drinks at Lazy Daisy.
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