This was tough - 8 peaks over 20 miles in 10 hours with a hail storm on Bleabury! At least I didn't need my Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment - my only health issue is sore feeet. Thank you Keswick Mountain Festival for a great day out.

30 hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Thrilled to complete the 2 Peaks Challenge (12 mls, 800m) at #KMF2026 today - just over 4 months since my left knee replacement. (Last done 8 months after my right knee replacement.) Hope to be back on the 8 Peaks with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social next yr!

This was tough - 8 peaks over 20 miles in 10 hours with a hail storm on Bleabury! At least I didn't need my Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment - my only health issue is sore feeet. Thank you Keswick Mountain Festival for a great day out.

New blog post by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social Does the Court of Protection have jurisdiction - post Townsend - to make declarations that treatment under the Mental Health Act is not in P's best interests? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/05/12/a...

33.5 hiking miles for me this week, including 12 more Wainwright summits. Fab hike today with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social: a 9-miler from home to Buttermere over the tops, along the Causey Pike-Crag Hill ridge (first half of the 10-in-10 challenge route) #nhs1000miles

Time for the #nhs1000miles regular Sunday evening post. It's 22 hiking miles for me this week - another (mostly) lovely one in the #LakeDistrict. And the bluebells are out @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Walking above Ullswater - & thrilled to see that the 'Inspired by Ullswater' Virtual Art Gallery includes a QR code to view Mark Richards' work. Here's his linescape (from that page) of the head of the lake - & my pic of the same view this morning @fellranger.bsky.social @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

A fantastic hiking week here in the #LakeDistrict: a total of 30 miles, including 8 Wainwright fells, for #nhs1000miles. Pics from across the week @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

In - and above - Watendlath yesterday (another gorgeous one in the #LakeDistrict). The farmhouse here was the home of Hugh Walpole's character, Judith Paris, in the second novel of the Herries chronicles. Week ahead looks good too! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Another blue sky day in the #LakeDistrict for post-surgery Wainwright no 32: Holme Fell. Reward afterwards: first of the new season's asparagus (yum!) @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Glorious sunshine, a bracing breeze, three Wainwrights, a red squirrel, a cuckoo, and an exultation of larks. Out with the Roamers today on the Loweswater fells #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Four from Raven Crag this afternoon #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

22.5 hiking miles, including 6 Wainwrights, for me this week. Here are 4 more pics from the fab Greenburn Round - with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - on Tuesday. #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles

Exciting news! Our podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here: www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/... @countrystride.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @inspiredbylakeland.bsky.social

[email protected] Exciting news! Our Countrystride podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here: www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/... @countrystride.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @inspiredbylakeland.bsky.social

My first post-surgery 'round': 4 Wainwrights today on the 8-mile Greenburn Round above Grasmere. Sunny beginning, increasing wind, driving rain for most of the descent. Loved it! So happy to be properly back on the fells #LakeDistrict

Lovely up on Fleetwith Pike this morning (though had to clear litter, scatter firepits, and carry down seven abandoned water bottles ...) #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

A good walking week, despite very mixed weather. 26 boots-on hiking miles, including 5 Wainwright fells. #nhs1000miles #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Fresh snow on the tops and newborn lambs in the fields this morning. Very windy in the northern #LakeDistrict

Early start to beat the holiday hordes on Catbells, on another blue sky day in the #LakeDistrict - pretty windy though. First bit of scrambling for new knee (worked OK!) and 18th Wainwright summit since surgery 12 weeks ago @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Quick ascent of Castle Crag this morning with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social, ahead of the coming storm #LakeDistrict

Along the High Rigg ridge this morning, and back through St John's in the Vale. Daffs looking good at church - and stopped to pay our respects to John Richardson #LakeDistrict #dialectpoet @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

This week's total towards #nhs1000miles: 22 hiking miles, including 4 Wainwrights. Not bad for a 12-week-old knee! #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Gorgeous day in the #LakeDistrict - perfect for testing out my new knee over 8 miles & nearly 600 metres ascent/descent. (She did well - might just have been headed for a liquid reward in pic 3) Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pics

Grabbed the weather window today, for a (sunny + windy) bimble up on Whinlatter with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social. Pouring with rain in the #LakeDistrict now

11 hiking miles this week - making the most of the (limited) weather windows in the #LakeDistrict. Included 2 more small Wainwrights: Barrow and Walla Crag. YTD 103.5 miles - a little under half of what's needed to be on target for #nhs1000miles - but not too bad with an 11-week-old new knee!

A pleasure today to share the stage with @clark345.bsky.social from @rhnuk.bsky.social - bringing our research into dialogue - to address catastrophic brain injury and “ethics, philosophy & the Mental Capacity Act” #ProlongedDisordersofConsciousess

*Upcoming Court of Appeal - Weds 25th March 2026** Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection? That's what the Court of Appeal will be considering. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/03/22/c...

#IdesofMarch A bronze Roman larva convivialis 199 BCE-500CE--a type of memento mori displayed at a banquet or feast to remind the revelers of their own mortality. collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co90.... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

New blog post By @kitzingercelia.bsky.social openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/24/t...

YES - IT'S TONIGHT! Your rare opportunity to see & hear the Grasmere Dialect Plays brought to life! Wed 11 March, 6.15 in the Studio, @tbtlake.bsky.social Keswick. A few tickets left: phone the theatre box office on 017687 74411 (or visit the Words By the Water website).

It's tomorrow night! Still (just) time to get your tickets for our readings from the fabulous Grasmere Dialect Plays. theatrebythelake.com/event/the-la... 6.15, The Studio, @tbtlake.bsky.social, Keswick. See you there!

Week 8 for new left knee, and my highest boots-on hiking mileage this year: 18 miles. Pics from this weekend's outings with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social and Keswick Rambling Club. #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles

En route from Lord's Seat to Barf today: another gloriously sunny one in the #LakeDistrict Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pic!

Great to be celebrating Lakeland icon Beatrix Potter on International Women's Day!

Thrilled to see the William Heaton Cooper backcloth - painted in the 1930s for the Grasmere Dialect Plays - at the Grasmere Village Hall this afternoon. (It was 'lost' until 2015, when it was rediscovered rolled up under the stage: www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/1413859...)

I'm having one of *those* mornings....

Sun eve check-in for #nhs1000miles. 11 hiking miles, with 2 more Wainwright fells, for me this week (week 7 of new knee). Pics are from my longest/highest hike to date: the Knott Rigg - Ard Crags ridge. #LakeDistrict (Pics by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social)

Contested decision-making about life-sustaining treatment for adults after catastrophic brain injury Free lecture (on line and in person) 19 March 2026 17:45 to 19:30 www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Week 6 of new knee and 13 hiking miles completed towards #nhs1000miles. Two more Wainwright summits: Sale Fell and Great Mell Fell. Pic is of me navigating the remains of the snow and ice on Thursday, as the thaw began to set in. #LakeDistrict (Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pic)

In Keswick for the 'Words by the Water' Festival? I'll be introducing members of the Lakeland Dialect Society performing sketches from the amazing Grasmere Dialect Plays. Guaranteed to be both informative and great fun! 11th March, 6.15 in the Studio, Theatre by the Lake @tbtlake.bsky.social

And for my next trick ... The operated knee - 40 days old - successfully navigates its first stile today, on Great Mell Fell #LakeDistrict May not be elegant but definitely functional! (Think @kitzingercelia.bsky.social might have been impressed)

Sandwiches while sheltering from 25-mph gusts of freezing wind! Cold but wonderful views on an exhilarating walk today.

One of those - rare - blue sky days when it would have been rude not to get out! Sale Fell this morning #LakeDistrict Pics by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

It's a year since my extraordinary daughter died unexpectedly. Re-sharing her obituary because it matters so much that the world understands who children w/ SEND actually are - especially right now when their right to the support they need in education is at risk. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Well, just had to get up above the snowline today: Little Mell Fell. Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the video #LakeDistrict

A Welsh white leopard? Litigation capacity in the absence of subject-matter capacity revisited Whether you can have capacity to conduct proceedings about a decision you lack capacity to make is a question that infrequently, but consistently, troubles the Court of Protection.  Mostyn J once…

Attorneys, failures to consult and consequences Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board v RW & Anor EWCOP 10 (T3) provides a snapshot of the realities of navigating health and welfare decision-making of a kind that rarely makes it to court.  In short compass, it concerns a failure by a hospital…

Cool and warm: Blencathra early afternoon and Skiddaw late afternoon today #LakeDistrict

New blog post Daughter of P (@AmandaAPHill.bsky.social) wins right to refer to Court of Protection proceedings naming her mother without having to make a further application after her mother's death. It shouldn't have been so hard! openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/12/h...