In case you've forgotten what this is all about, here is the third diary entry from my holiday to the Lake District. I would like to remind you that I was twelve...TWELVE, okay?

"Wednesday 2nd April 2008- Woke up again. Had some coco-pops, toast and a kiwi fruit for brekki. (My brother has made a friend called Ben by the way) (He thought his name was Bernard!) Anyway. 

Then we set off merrily (er...no) to a quarry near a little place called Rigg Beck. How delightfully charming. We parked our car and started walking along next to a river. After a while we crossed the river. (For me and my brother that basically meant throwing ourselves onto the grass on the other side). Ho hum pigs bum. Then the path got steeper until we were walking along the ridge. It was really tiring. Next we got to the peak of Aikin Knott (1500ft). Quite steep (so vatti says). We then continued soggily along the ridge to Ard Crags (1905ft). It was raining you see. Only spitting though. Then we walked for another mile and got to Knott Rigg (1823ft). All that time we were walking along a ridge where we could see far down into both valleys. Eeek. 

At Knott Rigg we stopped for lunch. Then Dad and Josh had a fight and tried to push each other into sheep poo. Clearly I had to join in and rescue......the poo. 

Next, we walked round on the other mountain ridges on the other side of the valley. It's quite hard to explain. Oh well. I know what I'm on about. It was really vair vair fun because there was loads of bracken and me and my brother kept diving in it and walking in deep paths. 

On the way down vatti fell over and we found out that he has really bad bum reflexes. 

When we got down to the farm we had to walk on road and then through bogs and stuff. It was quite fun actually. We finally got back to the purple house, which was the landmark for the car. Also we saw some lambs. 

The walk took 5 hours. Woop de doop. 

We drove to Keswick. Unfortunately. I had a really nice custard cake in a tea room. Yum. I think it was called Bysons or something. Next we went to a old-fashioned sweet shop. Clearly we bought sweets. 

To my delight (ha ha) we went INTO Booths. Ahhhhhh. I bought my tea. 

When we got we did stuff like pool. Then we had tea. I had tomato soup and bread and beans and yoghurt. Yey. Dad cooked it. 

Played cards and pool. 

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 

P.S. It was the best walk I can remember."

I must have been pretty tired after that walk because that was a fairly half-hearted attempt at being funny.  Not to worry, I was back on form the next day...

"Thursday 3rd April 2008- Woke to the sound of an elderly warthog flirting with a frog. Oh, no that would be my brother. 

Had some toast and fruit for breakfast. 

After we had packed our rucksacks we set off in our car and parked in Seatoller. We got into our flattering walking stuff. A tiny bus came and drove us up about 1000ft. Clearly this is not cheating. The bus ride was quite scary actually because the road was vair vair steep and the bus kept on stopping. Eeeeeeeek. 

When the bus dropped us off we couldn't see anything. It was sooo misty. We were in a cloud. Woop de doop. 

We started walking up a hill. Then another hill appeared out of the mist and that just carried on happening all the way up. It was really boring until me and my brother started rock climbing. OK, the rocks were vair small but vair vair fun. Tee hee. We also ate sweets that we bought yesterday. Yum. 

We were looking for a path that we would be turning down because when we got to that we had 500ft left (according to Wainwright) (Lol). But suddenly out of the mist we saw a man standing next to a cairn. We were at the top of Dale Head (2400ft)! Yey. Also, my theory was true. We saw loads of people at the top but none on the way up. Ureaka! Er...no. We also saw snow at the top. 

The way down was way funner (is a word!) because it was easier and rockier. There was quite a lot of snow around. But we couldn't go near it because we could have fallen off the mountain. Fun fun. 

We stopped for a nourishing snack (lunch) at a place where we could see Dale Head Tarn. Woo hoo. 

When we set off again we got lost but then we found the quarry we were supposed to be at. We realised it was the same one we had gone down 2 or 3 years ago when we climbed High Spy. Yey. We walked down it writing 2008 all over the slate. Aren't we rebels. Not. 

Then, when we got to the bottom of the quarry, we saw a 'u' shape in the hills that we had to get to. At that point me and my brother decided to jog al the way down to the car. It was vair fun. We had to wait at a field full of sheep poo so we jogged round it. Josh ran towards a sheep and its legs has a spasm attack. Ha ha!!! 

When M + D finally caught up with us me and Josh decided to go a quicker way. We could see the car park so we just ran towards it. Lol!! Mutti and Vatti went all the way round. Ha ha shame. We were there about 10 mins before them. Yey. The walk was about 4 hours I think. 

We drove back to the Youth Hostel and I read (I'm not a nerd by the way) until tea which was spaghetti and meatballs. Dad cooked it (oo-er). It was yum. 

Then, we all left everything on the table and walked down to the lake. It was a-m-a-z-i-n-g!! Really. We played around for ages. 

In the youth hostel front gardens we all played blockie 123. It was getting dark. Wooooo. It was soo vair vair funny when mum fell out a bush. Haha! 

On the last round Josh was on and we saw a man walking up the drive. He was walking in a weird way but he looked like dad. It was sooo weird. We couldn't decide whether it was dad or not. Then he started running towards us and (unfortunately!) we saw it was darling vatti. 

Happy Families! 

We had to do washing up then. Boo. 

Dad + Josh played pool. Me + Mum played pool. Me, Josh + Zak, Scott played pool. Zak and Scott won. Noooo! We set it up for them. Honest. 

It was quite late. 

So we had a few rounds of the sock game and 

zzzzz 

P.S. Mum's camera phone went crazy + went upside down. But ho hum mum's bum."

Well, if you're still reading this, congratulations! Only one day left of the holiday (thankfully), which I will post at some point in the near future! 

Harriet