We had a fairly wet night, but again not enough to really make a difference to the volume of water in the river.  This morning is breezy and showery with some brighter patches and a bit of blue sky breaking through now and again.  It's appreciably colder than of late.

I didn't manage to get up to Low Birkwith yesterday but will do so early this week.  I should hear about the grant one way or another sometime this week.  If the answer is no then I will try other grant sources such as the Aggregate Levy.  It's one of the advantages of living cheek by jowl to a quarry but the application process is a nightmare since you have to answer a whole range of gender, age and ethnicity questions.  As a club we do pretty well on age but I'm not sure that Lancastrians count as ethnic minorities even up here in God's own county.  Still it's worth a try if the YDMT can't help.

Ian