Well, here we are in the micro cottage we've rented

[Zacs-Master]

In beautiful Dentdale. Log burner at the ready. Beer chilling. Bring on the snow!

[sunny-dave]

Suffolk - one of a number of amazing properties rented out by 'Living Architecture' - eye-wateringly expensive, but a brilliant birthday weekend ...

http://www.living-arc...ancing-barn/overview/

[Zacs-Master]

Jack, I hope you mean I'll see their gravestones!

[Zacs-Master]

£740 for 4 nights. Gulp. Does look stunning tho!

[ummmm]

I need a few days away :-((

[jackthehat]

Oo-er :o/

Yes.......anything else would be a little alarming......:o)

[DTCwordfan]

Hope you get to (i) the Sun and (ii) the Barbon Inn - used to have really good pub food there......I know the area intimately, Zac.....(at school in the area - about 6 miles away)

[DTCwordfan]

Can we see a pic or two?

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, privately educated eh DT. No wonder your so sharp! I will post a few pics during the week fear not. Pen-y- gent was covered in snow and the colour of honey in the setting sun as we drove here. The beck by cowgill is almost completely frozen including the waterfall bits. Huge icicles. If I can't get some decent shots of That I'll chuck my camera in t'beck!

[DTCwordfan]

Right old Yarkshire coontry there lad - hope local ale is still Theakstons...probably Boddi's though....

Be careful of the sheep, they are Norma Batties in disguise.

Think I was at the ESN school.....!

[DTCwordfan]

An' o'course t'was Yarkshire and now Coombria.....so no need for correction....

[Zacs-Master]

DT, much prefer Dent brewery beers to Theakstons the Brabon looks nice. Going to try to plan a walk from there after I've been and bought OS19.

[DTCwordfan]

Its a good walk 6 miles each way - take care with the weather at the moment......could be a fair amount of snow up there and the climb up and down is a little twisty and steep.....if passable, rather nice though with the dry-stone walls going straight up over the tops....

[DTCwordfan]

so the local brewery is still going....glad to hear that. There used to be a wonderful glass place too.....

[Zacs-Master]

Oh yes DT. I often say my favourite beer is Timothy Taylors Landlord, but really it's ANY Dent brewery beer. I will be frequenting the G&D a few times and working my way along the 5 or 6 hand pumps. Thanks for the walking advice.

[DTCwordfan]

Dent to Sedbergh would be a safer walk and I would think there is still a bus service. There's also a "short cut" up and over the old Golf Course - a little steep....

However, plenty of bookshops in Sedbergh and, if the School is open, the Chapel, Powell Hall and the Library are worth visiting, as is the Parish Church.....

[Zacs-Master]

Cheers DT. A bit of local knowledge is much appreciated. Isn't it a small world.