The lure of island life is hard to resist…
O’er vales and hills in a wheelchair: a new accessible trail in the Lake District
11.01.2024 - 17:21 / theguardian.com
As the largest national park in England, and muse to the likes of Wordsworth and Swift (Taylor, not Jonathan), the Lake District needs no introduction. My friend Anthony, on the other hand, who has yet to appear on a postcard or be recognised by Unesco, almost certainly does.
Anthony and I have been mates since university. Between our second and third years, Anthony found himself bearing the awkward responsibility of marketing the drama society’s production at that year’s Edinburgh fringe. When I spotted Anthony’s call for assistance pinned to a noticeboard in the campus launderette, I unwisely volunteered to be his aide for a fortnight. While the task of flogging a feminist reworking of The Wind in the Willows was rarely straightforward, the ordeal did pay the significant dividend of forging a solid friendship that continues to this day.
In part because of his cerebral palsy, and in part because of his role at a charity called Able Child Africa, Ant hasn’t seen as much of the UK as he’d like. So when I proposed a winter trip to the Lake District to ascend a famous fell, having learned of a newly curated set of accessible trails in the area, it only took him a few hours to come round to the idea. He’d initially objected on the grounds that he’d miss Bake Off.
After a testing afternoon on the M6, we arrived in Cumbria just as Storm Debi did. As a result, we spent the first portion of our getaway admiring the great indoors – namely, the cosy interior of our hotel, a country house – once owned by Beatrix Potter – on the eastern bank of Windermere. As well as being the hotel equivalent of a charismatic great-aunt, Lindeth Howe was admirably accessible, which is to say that at no point during our stay was I required to provide Anthony with a piggy-back. The highlight of the evening proved to be a brief blackout during dinner. Ghost stories went around the room, the best of which involved a ghost with amnesia.
When I awoke the next morning, it took me a few seconds to remember why I was lying less than a metre from a geography graduate. Anthony was already awake, and in devilish mood. “Coffee,” he said. “Love one,” I said. “That wasn’t a question,” he said. These charitable types, huh?
It didn’t take me long upon drawing the curtains to ascertain that it was still blowing a hoolie. Despite the bad weather, we managed to fashion an interesting morning, chiefly with a visit to an Arts & Crafts house up the road called Blackwell, where we admired the handiwork and wondered whether William Morris’s golden rule – that people ought to have nothing in their houses that they do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful – bode ill for the pair of us.
It was about now that Storm Debi finally tired of drenching
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