thank you for sharing about hour home and the walks and the Lake District. It sounds like a very relaxed and nice place to live. Your post was very comforting to me.
Dear Maisi,
I am going to have a go at the pasta and squash bake, before the squash I have on the window sill goes bad.
Re bird watching...we have been meaning to do the bird count, when we first moved here we heard owls hooting...on our first evening. we have not heard them since. occasionally we get woodpeckers.
Our neighbours have 3 very large cats, so we don't feed the birds, for fear of the birds becoming cat food.

B