Friars Crag is a promontory jutting into Derwentwater on a stretch of shore about half a mile from the boat landing stages. Ruskin described the view as one of the three most beautiful scenes in Europe. It gained its name because it was believed to be the embarkment point for monks making a pilgrimage to St Herbert’s Island, located south-west of the crag.
This week we went to Bodnant Garden to view the willow sculpture by Trevor Leat on the Lily terrace. The sculpture is part of the national trusts "Unbind the wing" campaign celebrating the trail-blazing women of Bodnant Garden and their long struggle for suffrage. Laura McLaren of the Mclaren family who once owned Bodnant was not only a great horticulturalist but a tireless campaigner for the peaceful suffragist cause whose 'spade-work' over decades helped win women the vote.
