Expect the unexpected - a tripartite meet.

Fri 24th
I mentioned the other day that I could tell the time without my watch. Well it must have taken the huff, because it packed in a 7:20!
Set off at 8:15 - it was a sunny day, and although cold, there was none of the heavy rain, experienced in the East. 

In a lay-by - on the north side of Lancaster - I walked past a lorry. The driver was sorting out his fabric side-screens on his flat-back, and I must have taken him by surprise. "Jings me! [sanitised]" he exclaimed, "I didn't expect anyone walking past here."
Well, two hundred yards further along the pathway I meet three guys. Two [?] were walking "end to end" as we, experts, describe it, but in the opposite direction. They had also done a bit of mountain climbing along the way. We had just got over our surprise - I had not seen one other serious walker - when another guy trundles up. An American who was also walking JOG > LE. It was all rather surreal, as it was, also, almost at the half-way point. Anyway, once they took a few photos and our initial chat, we got down to the serious topic of who had the biggest blisters, and their associated pain and treatment.

Spent the night in a four-poster bed at Cross Keys Hotel in Milnthorpe [£47:50].
Travelled over 25 miles today - things getting a little better. [Will give an ankle update, a little later]