At least for the next day or so. Having packed the car full of waterproofs for the journey to the Lake District it was great not to have to make much use of them, so I have returned after a relaxing and spiritually refreshing time (or as relaxing a time you can have with a two year old and a two month old) in Keswick, including a slightly sporadic attendance at the Keswick Convention .
However, it is worrying to see that the threat of Foot and Mouth has returned to Surrey. Hopefully the authorities have caught it in time to stop it spreading; but it is sure to come as yet another blow for livestock farmers following the problems caused by BSE in the 1990s and Foot and Mouth in 2001.
