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Lake District day two: pretty much the same as day one, except with BUNNIES, a walk in a different direction, cream tea, and a lot more rain. Yes, this means I went to the Lake District and spent both my days exploring Beatrix Potter territory, but no other activity would have made me happier, so I’d call it a success.
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Day one in the Lake District: a rather less exciting picture of me at Hill Top Farm than would have been taken had someone else been holding the camera; a walk in the woods near Near Sawrey, during which my shoes got soaked and the kissing gate I was supposed to be looking for never materialized and I had to turn around and go back the way I had come rather than finishing the loop the book said to follow; my first ever Ploughman’s lunch at the Tower Bank Arms (not pictured, but famously immortalized in The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck); a trip to the grammar school (not pictured) and parish church in Hawkshead, both attended by the poet Wordsworth. And, of course, seeing Beatrix Potter’s original drawings at the Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead and obtaining a copy of the first edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which I wrote about here.
This is a limited edition reprint of the very first ever edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was self-published by Beatrix Potter. The illustrations inside are black and white ink drawings, and there are a couple pages in the book that didn’t end up in the commercially published version. I got to see the original drawings at the Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead today. The only way I can describe how special that was is to say that I had a moment.
