ONE 15-year-old girl was determined not to let Covid stand in her way of heading off on a school expedition – even though she had to swim two of the county’s lakes, in winter. Grace Mosedale is hoping to go to Peru in July as part of a Keswick School Expedition organised through Camps International, subject to Covid restrictions being lifted around the world. Her original plan, to help fund the expedition, was to get some weekend work and a summer job but the pandemic put paid to any chances of that. She considered doing a sponsored event in summer but felt that the timing wasn’t right so decided to have a go at the first Winter Tadpole Graham – a 7.5 mile circuit around Crummock Water and Buttermere but there’s a catch – you have to swim across each of the lakes.