Lake Ullswater was beloved by the poet William Wordsworth, who found it especially beautiful in the spring when daffodils bloomed on its banks. Photo: Visit Britain and Britain on View
When I was a little girl, my grandparents gifted me with a beautiful set of Beatrix Potter books for Christmas one year. I could barely wait for everyone to finish unwrapping presents so that I could sneak off to my room with my treasure. The first Potter story I read on that long ago Christmas Day was The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher, about a determined frog whose fishing trip turned out to be not quite what he expected.
Now, all these years later, here I was, wandering through the rooms of Hill Top House, Beatrix Potter’s 17th century farmhouse in the English Lake District. The tiny cottage is decorated much as it was when Potter used it as a sanctuary for writing and illustrating (she actually lived in another, larger house across the road).
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