Route: from the cottage cycling to the mid-Lorton crossroads and left rising past Hopebeck to the end of the road and then turning right along the main road to the showground opposite Newhouse Farm. Afterwards, back along the main road through the narrows and home.
Conditions: a gloriously sunny warm (21C) September day.
Pub? the beer tent at the show for Cumbrian Ales, Loweswater Gold, chatting to Ian and Jo (inter alia).