The Oldie

Grandpa's spirit haunts the Lake District

When I last walked on Scout Scar, some 20 years ago, I helped my mum scatter Grandpa's ashes.

I should remember the day clearly, but I don't. There was wind, straggly hawthorn and a sense of completing a task, I think, but this vertiginous ridge of limestone with preposterously fine views everywhere is lodged in my memory from other walks with Grandpa.

In his latter days, slowing up, he eschewed the

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