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Croftfoot had a large visitors book in which guests were asked to write notes, events, suggestions and anything they felt might be useful to the Trustees or to future visitors. Some guests simply wrote a paragraph at the end of their stay, but the Fallans were more creative and wrote an entry in the Log every day diarising their antics. The daily Log-writing sessions in front of the fire were, for the most part, an adult-only ritual usually started once the younger Fallans had gone to bed (assuming they could stay awake long enough to write anything at all and/or were sober enough to focus their minds and eyes well enough to write legibly and coherently!). Once our beloved Croftfoot was sold in 1984, the Fallans continued to come to Lakeland at Easter, staying in other rented accommodation in different parts of Cumbria. None of these other houses had a Croftfoot-style Log book, but recording our daily exploits was a tradition we decided to continue and a letter was sent to Croftfoot's former Trustees requesting photocopies of our early entries.
The first ever Fallan Diary entry was written on Tuesday 17th April 1984 as an advance Fallan party was staying in Portinscale near Keswick for the few days prior to Good Friday. Against all odds, we kept the Diary going for eight years (from 1984 to 1991) and some of the highlights can be read here.
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