English Lake District Daily Briefing for Wednesday 14th May 2008
Updated on Tuesday at 10.00pm
It's the Lake District... but not as we know it!
Today is the first day in 6 months without any new Lake District pictures, everyone seems to be somewhere else, so here is something else
Zebras and flamingos, the Lake District, Tanzania [taken on 13/11/2007 by Flickr user Stig Nygaard] 
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
This section shows photographs from Lake District Now visitors going about their daily lives. If you would like to take part please take a suitable photograph and .
Hull Pot, in the Yorkshire Dales [11/5/2008 by David and Edith Brown]
Lake District Trivia
Many of the fells, waters, towns and villages of the Lake District get their names from animals, how many of them can you think of (for instance 'Eel Crag')? view answer
Bee Holme
Buckbarrow
Bull Crag
Cat Bells
Crowmire
Curlew Crag
Dove Crag
Eagle Crag
Eel Crag
Ewe Crag
Falcon Crag
Foxes Tarn
Goats Water
Great Cockup (woodcock!)
Harter Fell
Hawkshead
Heron Crag
High Buzzard Knott
High Ravens Crag
Hindscarth
Otter Island
Oxendale
Swine Crag
Troutbeck
And there are no doubt others
Source: A Lake District Miscellany - by Tom Holman
Lake District TV
Mountain - Wednesday 14th May at 19:00 on BBC 2
Griff Rhys Jones travels through the Lake District, a place deemed dull only a few hundred years ago. The comedian discovers how the area inspired poet Wordsworth, whose writings did much to change people's perceptions of the region, and investigates the birthplace of the Quaker movement. He retraces the footsteps of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and talks to farmers about their role in keeping the mountains picturesque
A Place in the Sun: Home or Away - Thursday 15th May at 12:30 on Channel 4
Lake District v Castellon: Property experts Jonnie Irwin and Jasmine Harman meet Nottingham newlyweds Tony and Clare McGorisk, who have 200,000 to spend on a dream holiday home before their first baby is born. The mother-to-be prefers the Lake District, but her husband has bigger ideas and sees them buying property on the Spanish coast around Castellon
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Wednesday 14th May at 20:00 on ITV 3
Double Sin: The Belgian sleuth contemplates retiring while on a trip to the Lake District, but shelves his plans when Hastings meets a woman whose collection of valuable miniatures has been stolen.
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards holidays on the Pembrokeshire Coast (Wales)
The Lakeland Fells - Andew Leaney walks to the Bone Caves of Inchnadamph (Scotland)
Wainwright Wanderings - David and Edith Brown walk Brackenbottom Farm - Pen y ghent - Plover Hill - Hull Pot (in the Yorkshire Dales)
See yesterday's Lake District pictures
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