It’s a decidedly chilly and grey January afternoon in Cumbria today – never, of course, without the natural beauty of Lakeland, but chilly, in a dispiriting sort of a way, anyway.
And then a note from a friend in Edinburgh led to my daydreaming of that beloved city, and of summer days there this past year, and of my returning there in the not-too-distant future, and I was away! Eyes closed, after-lunch coffee to hand, in January, in Cumbria, I’m in Edinburgh on a bright summer day …

