I’ve still got another 2 days in London to post about as well as the 4 days we’ve spent in the Lakes District…but. Ima waiting on Neil to get the images processed and he and Connie are only working at half capacity at best right now. Two Tuesdays back in London, Neil started feeling poorly…scratch throat, burning eyes, runny nose and told her he was coming down with a cold…so when they got back to the hotel well after midnight from Bath he took some drugs for that and they went to bed. Wednesday morning…she had it as well so both of them obviously caught it at the same time.

They were able to bore on through the remaining concert on Thursday night with the help of cold pills and Advil…then both got worse over the weekend and ever since they’ve pretty much alternated days for who felt worse. 

It was so bad that they actually cancelled some of their planned activities here in the Lakes District and scaled back some others and spent a lot of time just napping and figuring out what the really important activity for the day was and ensuring they had enough energy for it. Today as I post this on Thursday they’re doing a little better but at least for this cold Neil got worse faster and better slower than she did…luck of the draw with whatever this particular virus is.

Anyways…that’s all the news that’s fit to post and I didn’t want ya’ll to think we had been abducted by aliens or tossed into the dungeon or something. We’re going from Keswick here in Lakes about 100 miles south to Skipton on the south side of Yorkshire Dales and are supposed to drive from there to Buxton and back on Saturday for a Saint-Saens Organ Symphony concert…but unless they both feel a lot better than they do today they’re probably going to cancel that since it’s 120 miles down there and coming back after the concert would be another close to midnight getting back to the hotel. If they don’t go to Buxton I’ll nag him…well, I’ll get Connie to nag him since bears don’t nag well…to get at least some of the photos processed and I’l do another post.

We have discovered that northern UK roads are very similar to the roads in Ireland…narrow, twisty, and curvy and with speed limits of 60 (England uses miles instead of kilometers) which is just insane and he’s typically doing 40 instead.

Cyas.