Running up that hill

Thorpe Cloud - the hill we climbed

Somedays, you just have to climb a hill.

On our way to the Peaks we listened to our new audiobook, 'Wolf Brother', about a hunter gatherer boy from a wolf clan who has to make a long journey to the Mountain of the World Spirit with only his wolf for company. Ascending Thorpe Cloud, Ferdy told me about all other the mountains he knows about (including the ones in Archenland near Narnia and Angry Mountain and Wild Dragon Cliff on the Isle of Berk). Then he ran off to find the Mountain of the World Spirit, and was just a dot ahead of us for the rest of the way up and back down.

Ferdy is just visible at the end of the path

We eventually caught up with him right down at the bottom where he was doing some rock climbing.

Gil had been asking me all week about a book I have on the Matisse cut-outs and is very intrigued about him creating the cut-outs whilst sitting in his wheelchair and no longer being able to paint. So we looked at his cut out pictures and Ferdy wrote about his favourite one, and then we made pictures inspired by our morning out.

Our hills became volcanoes (because they are more fun) but hey, there would have been volcanic action in the Peaks at some point so why not?





It's often pretty tricky for Ferdy to concentrate on Friday afternoons, but not this Friday. Perhaps we should all run up and down hills a little more often.