Another hot day, another swim-hike ... #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Cooling down again in the #LakeDistrict with a 7-mile hike along the Ullswater Way, punctuated by delicious dips in the lake. Great day out: thanks to Suzanna Swims for the logistics! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Very much enjoyed this evening's panel session at the Armitt Museum on Harriet Martineau - with members of the Martineau Society (who are holding their annual conference in Ambleside). Spurred me on to read more of her work!

Not the best of weeks: bad reaction to a vaccine + still rehabbing an aggravated kneecap. And wet. Only 13 (flattish) hiking miles. Best pic was of goslings feeding beside the river Derwent - so have a bonus shot from the corridor route up Scafell Pike last summer! #nhs1000miles

Slowly getting moving again after injury: a total of 15.5 hiking miles this (hot) week, including a couple of short trips up to nearby tarns for a cooling dip, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles

Heatwave daily swim no 3, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - lake rather than tarn today! #LakeDistrict

Another day, another tarn swim #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

[email protected] keeping cool in the #LakeDistrict today

Nursing an injury, so just 8.5 (flat) hiking miles for me in the last fortnight. Sad I had to pull out of the 10-in-10 challenge yesterday, but hope to start back on some gentle hills in the coming week. Pic is an enticing Skiddaw with some great cloudage today #nhs1000miles #LakeDistrict

Huge congratulations to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social, who completed the 10-in-10 (10 peaks in 10 hours) challenge today in 9 hrs 58 min, including a sprint finish to the Swinside Inn! @mssocietyuk.bsky.social #LakeDistrict

An outstanding evening @tbtlake.bsky.social, Keswick - Hamblett's production of 'By a Lady: The Life & Wit of Jane Austen'. The 2 actors (Doon MacKichan & Rachel Parris) & 2 musicians (David Le Page & Nick Stringfellow) had the audience enthralled. Definitely a company to watch: hambletts.com

Just 15 hiking miles for me this week. Mostly wet and windy in the #LakeDistrict. Pics from a half-day with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social on the Graystones-Lords Seat ridge on Friday. #nhs1000miles

A celebratory end to this year's Cultural Landscapes series: the speaker, @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social, passed her PhD viva y'day. She's the first grad from the Cumbria Uni MA in 'Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District' to complete a PhD. Congrats Dr Saadaoui! @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social

Thinking about a new career direction or undertaking PG study in the fields of literary and cultural studies this September? Find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism, and the English Lake District at our Ambleside campus Open Day on Sat 4th July: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...

Out every day for 52.5 hiking miles this week. 3/4 of them were on Menorca's wonderful Cami de Cavalls, the rest back home in the #lakedistrict (including the second half of the 10-in-10 challenge route yesterday) #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

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!

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

The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a free public talk on Jane Austen and Romantic Pedestrianism by @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social The talk will take place on Tue 2 June (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. For further details & to book a place see: www.ticketsource.com/cultural-lan...

Tonight's enjoyable "Cultural Landscapes" talk by Lancaster Emeritus Professor Angus Winchester - illustrating how historical reality is often overlain by powerful stories, which fuse to become a "new history" of place @cumbriauni.bsky.social @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social

Steep little climb with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social up to Arthur's Seat (Wordsworth's "promontory") above Grasmere this afternoon #LakeDistrict

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

Interested in undertaking postgraduate study in September? There is still time to book a place at this online talk at 6pm tomorrow (Wed 29 April) at which you can find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District 📚🍃

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

A wonderful episode featuring fascinating archival research on the Grasmere Dialect Plays by our own MA graduate @suewilkinson.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

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

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

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

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

A night out @tbtlake.bsky.social, Keswick - exuberant performance from a versatile and very talented cast of six actor-musicians. Bravo!

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

Long-tailed tit outside my office window this morning

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

Revisiting Rannerdale Knotts today. When last here (in 2003) I was recording a video clip about the 'Battle of Rannerdale' in Rosemary Sutcliff's novel, 'The Shield Ring' - part of my 'Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District' MA coursework on children's literature cumbriauni.bsky.social

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!

One week today! Join me online at 6pm on Tuesday 31 March to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District 📚🍃

#nhs1000miles A very modest 11.5 hiking miles in the last fortnight (wks 9 and 10 of new knee). Last wk was the fab Words by the Water festival; this wk a nasty sinus infection. Pics: looking across Bassenthwaite from Calvert Lakes (nos 2 & 3 an hour apart)

The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series is a free talk by @whitbyabi.bsky.social on Anne Lister and her 1824 tour of the Lake District. The talk will take place on Tue 14 April (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. For further details & to book a place see www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/per...

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).