In praise of limestone: Country diary 50 years ago

Originally published in the Guardian on 21 August 1967LAKE DISTRICT: If you live in the Lake District it is a good thing sometimes to get away from the wet, almost steamy valleys – so overgrown in August – to the hard, colourless limestone scars which edge its southern limits. “Colourless,” is not quite a fair description because up on the tops of the ridges where the bare limestone breaks through and only hazel and yew really thrive, there are paths bordered with pink ce