Look! Through the rain you can see the real Wild Cat Island – aka Peel Island on Coniston Water! Despite the terrible weather I had a wonderful long weekend in the Lake District the other week and our theme was Children’s literature – so we did the steam yacht on Coniston so we could see Wild Cat and get a bit of water time in a slightly more relaxing way than sailing a dingy like the Blacketts and the Walkers. And given the weather – which included a thunderstorm as well as the torrential rain you can see in the picture – that was probably a good idea.
We also went to Grasmere to see Wordworth’s grave, and we also got rained on there. But given that I really don’t like Wordsworth (thank you A Level English Literature) i was slightly less forgiving of the rain there than I was in Ransome country.
Anyway to mark the trip, have a throwback post to my Swallows and Amazons series post from last summer after I went to book conference. And yes it was some of my book conference gang that I was hanging out with!
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
Grasmere is lovely. Unfortunately, it does tend to rain in the Lakes – sorry you got wet!