IT’S going to be a busy summer up here, I reckon. It’s bad enough already, the Lake District being what it is, but now that we’ve got the ruddy newspapers banging on about ‘staycationing’ and a raft of TV luvvies falling over each other to discover the Lakes we could be in trouble. Would you all just please shut up?

The thing is, all these presenters extolling the virtues of the Lake District are just a bit too good at it. How could anyone resist the call of the Lakes? Clearly we have to prepare for the worst: the roads will be gridlocked by layby picknickers and Ambleside won’t move for the tourists searching out an ice cream and a photo opportunity.

John Prescott spoiled us, I’m afraid, by banning all the decent water sports on Windermere. I don’t have a downer on water sports – in fact I quite miss the activity on the lake, and Prezzer clearly reneged on a long established agreement between power boaters and the National Park – but that first summer after the ban we stayed in a hotel at Rydal and we could have had any room we wanted. That’s what the lakes should be like: all mine.

But back to the present. Hopefully this foretold traffic chaos may not impact too badly on our cycling events on 25 April; Wrynose or Bust may be early enough for us to get away with it.

But on the other hand, all this Lake District stuff on the telly might just generate enough curiosity in cyclists who live further afield to persuade them to come up here and give one of our events a go. Maybe there should be one or two more presenters celebrating the English Lakes and all things Cumbrian…

What’s the matter with them? Don’t they know a good thing when they see it?

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