Country Diary

The weather this year has been inconsistent and erratic, dry spells followed by downpours, followed again by dry spells. The most recent dry spell up in Lancashire seems to have gone on for a few weeks now and the river Lune, so often a raging torrent after rains in the high grounds around Tebay, was on its bare bones in the middle of June.

The Lune is a river that seems to wear