Love this photo of Victoria painting....nice she's been chosen as a favourite artist www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#la... 😍

Another lovely review, in Cumbria and Lakeland Walker magazine , but ouch, that headline 😉😉😉 gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda...

Fabulous new exhibition at the Heaton Cooper Studio in Grasmere. Linda Ryle's history is as fascinating as her art. Great piece in Cumbria and Lakeland Walker magazine

Does anyone know how to contact editor of Cumbria Life magazine ? Emails bouncing back, phone not answered. Thanks.

Lovely review by Will Smith in Cumbria Life magazine of my Rydal Mount book 😎

This was incredible! Especially running inside the minster and town hall! Brilliant idea from @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social

And while we're here why not treat yourself to reading "Science and Sensibilty" with its chapter on geology's pioneers including the remarkable Mary Anning! 😀

Connections are fascinating. cumbriacrack.com/2026/06/15/r...

“Surely any man who is prepared to shovel manure is aware of his position in life .” Tribute to Wm Wordsworth, gardener, in here: gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda...

And they’re going to stock my new book 😎😎😎

And more cucumbers! #worldcucumberday www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#la...

You do realise that tomorrow is World Cucumber Day? And that if you go into certain hotels in Keswick, you get a free gin and tonic in exchange for a cucumber? This is the best thing in the news this week. www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#la...

Exciting day! gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... @gritstonebooks.bsky.social

And the 1000 milestone shirt colour is.........YELLOW! And how happy does Darren look to be the first to get one. 😄

Clever PR from Travelodge. My former students from @hudunipress.bsky.social may recall other good examples 😉. @parkrunuk.bsky.social

Yet more fantastic renewable energy news, a million homes powered by clean, green energy. The cure to all your fossil fuel price gauging. We should have started this decades ago, but oil companies have so much power in politics.

A summer of music in the Lakes @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#la...

What a life, and what a play! Nell Gwynn, from the pen of the fabulous @jessicaswale.bsky.social coming to Keswick's Theatre by the Lake @tbtlake.bsky.social (Yes. She IS the one who wrote Paddington: The Musical) stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/c...

Or you could start reading the news without this bizarre bias. Guardian, get truthful again

Wakefield Thornes parkrun. Where should we go for breakfast ? When in Rome….

In #Halifax amazing @thepiecehall.bsky.social for 10th birthday of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social

Anyone in or near Halifax on Thurs… come to the Piece Hall to celebrate 10 years of great books from @gritstonebooks.bsky.social . Meet the authors. Have a Piece of birthday cake. From 11am

Well done Shakespeare Festival: stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/s...

And I do remember it...https://stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/remembering-the-manchester-bomb/

The Press knew. They laughed. The Tories knew. They didn’t care. All I see now is hypocrisy.

Can't wait! stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/i...

How very odd!

Wow and ***** the most astonishing Shakespeare production for a very long time, on till the end of the week at York Theatre Royal stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/t... (Best since Henry V touring English cathedrals in 2018. )

Vicky had a theatre dream....https://stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/vickys-theatre-dream-that-came-true/ @tbtlake.bsky.social

Another classic hit from @tbtlake.bsky.social in Keswick stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/t...

Wings to fly is the story of Keswick’s Theatre by the lake, written up by Vicky Robinson and reviewed here | Eileen Jones

The amazing story of the fabulous @tbtlake.bsky.social told by the woman who made it all happen...https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/tv-film-and-theatre/give-her-the-wings-to-fly/

Now that’s what I call a grand night out…

Gritstone book due out this summer now that @cumbriapr.bsky.social can write her final chapter. Well done Wordsworth Grasmere, the best outcome wordsworth.org.uk/rydalmount/?...

Thanks to #Buxton Field Club and @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social for a great meeting and successful book launch last night! #naturewriting @gritstonebooks.bsky.social laurencerose.co.uk/product/the-...

@cumbriauk.bsky.social Welcome!!!

Why reading matters if you want to be a writer. You'd think it was common sense, of course, but it needs reinforcing, says Gritstone author Mike Raine gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/why... #writers #reading

Theatre in the Lakes just gets better and better. If you're coming to the world premiere @VictoriaWoodTheatre, book accommodation nearby: www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#wo... @lakedistrict.bsky.social

Tonight was the private view for my new book tie-in exhibition at The Armitt in Ambleside. ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ features loan items from the major Potter archives and offers new perspectives on this popular children’s author. It opens on Wednesday 18 February and will run until December 🍃📚🍄

Amazingly, Julian Cooper offered me my first solo photography exhibition, at the Archive Gallery in Grasmere in 2019. Apart from being a very thoughtful, imaginative, and accomplished landscape painter, he's also a highly amusing fellow to be around, with a dry wit of the best kind.

The book, and now an exhibition at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick @tbtlake.bsky.social stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t... @lakedistrict.bsky.social

What is effective about this Burnham statement is it reads like something that he is personally invested in and is not worried about criticism for. More of this please.

Talking all things Loughrigg with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague Mike Raine open.spotify.com/episode/6pkp... @lakedistrict.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social

Towards Scafell by Julian Cooper from his stunning new book; this is art on the grandest scale. For lovers of the Lakes, and mountains everywhere @lakedistrict.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @grasmerewi.bsky.social northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/ar...

We're celebrating ten years in publishing and now looking to recruit new members to our writers' group. If you're interested please read this gritstonecoop.co.uk/join-us/ and the feature article below, then any more questions, get in touch via our website. northwestbylines.co.uk/business/loc...

At long last @johnofarrell.bsky.social I've got tix for Something Rotten. I'm sure you were due to open in UK in the year of lockdown. This had better be worth waiting for 😉😉

A lovely eclectic list to be part of. Thank you , @waterstones.bsky.social

UK writer-owned publishing co-op Gritstone plans new releases to mark 10th anniversary #coops @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social