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Lake Windermere, Cumbria<\/p><\/div>\n
Apart from devouring a delicious Guinness Cake (recipe below), a recent family get together in Cumbria in the UK gave us a glimpse of something we’ve been too busy to realise was slipping us by…<\/em><\/p>\n
Life<\/b><\/p>\n
It’s been eight years since I last saw my sister who moved to Canada more years ago than we can remember, where she found and married a kind Canadian man and between them gave us three gorgeous nephews, the youngest of which are now 9 and 11. Recently the opportunity arose for us to get together to celebrate our Dad’s 80th birthday and catch up with one another.<\/p>\n
Muncaster Castle, Cumbria<\/p><\/div>\n
We spent Dad’s birthday surrounded by owls at The World Owl Centre then meandered our way around the glorious castle walk at Muncaster where the views are simply mouth dropping and we were offered \u00a0the opportunity to blow away the cobwebs in the unseasonably warm November winds. After filling SD cards with photos we headed back to our accommodation where we cooked a variety of vegan\/vegetarian\/meat-eating delights before tucking into the lip lickingly delicious Guinness cake baked the night before, a cake that would carry just two candles on its surface and not a chocolate melting eighty.<\/p>\n