Lemur spotting in rainforest at Andasibe. Will post #nhs1000miles next week. Due to violent protests in Madagascar, UK govt advice is to leave right away - so we’re on our way home, sadly losing half our trip. Wishing a peaceful and just solution for the Malagasy people

Exciting news: I've got a 3-page article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays in the Oct 2025 issue of 'Cumbria Life' magazine! Really hoping this will bring them to a wider audience @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social @countrystride.bsky.social For more on the Plays, head over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social

19 low-level hiking miles for me in a (very) soggy week here in the #LakeDistrict. Pics below (need a click) are across Bassenthwaite Lake towards Skiddaw (in cloud) - taken this morning from Sale Fell. #NHS1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Just 11 hiking miles for me this week (following a painful tooth extraction) - still focusing on Ennerdale. Here's a couple of pics from yesterday, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles

19.5 hiking miles for me this week - mostly at beginning of week, as last few days have been both soggy and windy. Pic from a quiet hike above Ennerdale on Bank Holiday Monday. #nhs1000miles #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Celebrating our 22nd Wedding Anniversary (a couple of days late) tonight! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social We got married in Canada in 2003 - 11 years before it was lawful in England & Wales. We lost our marriage equality case in the High Court in 2006 - but we're on the right side of history! Cheers!

Congrats to @sharonkennedy.bsky.social & her wonderful new business, Team Tortoise! Front page cover girl on CW Herald's 'North Lakes Living' mag + 2-page feature inside. Hope it helps Team Tortoise go from strength to strength. [Ahem: Spotted a couple of pics of a certain client group too ...!]

NEW PODCAST - JUST POSTED! Lakeland Dialect Society members star in two new readings from the 1924 Grasmere Dialect Play "On Second Thoughts". Brilliant - and great fun! Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP7t...

Fly camping in Cumbria - excellent article by Eileen Jones @cumbriapr.bsky.social: gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/fly... (Photo from the article: attributed to "concerned local residents")

Perfect day for Grasmere Sports (well, maybe a little warm for the fell runners!). Was on the Lakeland Dialect Society stand - with Donald Angus, here doing his best impression of being a herdwick shepherd ...

Late posting again! 24 hiking miles for me this week. Here's a view over Buttermere and (part of) Crummock Water from Tuesday's ascent of Mellbreak with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social. #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles

grist.org/climate/anta... “abrupt changes,” like the precipitous loss of sea ice over the last decade are unfolding in Antarctica and its surrounding waters

Totally brilliant performance of "Pride & Prejudice" in Keswick tonight: one of the best productions I've ever seen @tbtlake.bsky.social. Towed perfect line between faithfulness to the novel & contemporary humour. All cast strong + doubling up of characters v impressive. Kudos to all involved!

Cold water - c. 12 degrees - swim anyone? Brill! Thanks to Swim the Lakes for great logistics, as ever @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Heather looking pretty nice on Mellbreak today (with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social) #LakeDistrict

Glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees have lost about 40% of their mass since 2000. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 19, 2025 ~ Might? "Given how catastrophic the impact of humans on the biosphere has been already, it’s chilling to think that the crescendo of our mass extinction might still lie in front of us." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What’s really in the water at Lake Windermere?

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

(Very) late post for #nhs1000miles this week: still on the hill at 7.30 on Sunday! 31 hiking miles to add. Highlight was the Mosedale Horseshoe: 5 Wainwright summits, 11 miles, 1630m elevation. Pics are of/from Yewbarrow (the final summit) @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Over on @grasdialectplays.bsky.social you can find lots of photos from fabulous readings - by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society - from the Grasmere Dialect Plays. Podcast coming soon: watch this space!

It's tomorrow! 2 pm at the Armiit Museum, Ambleside Last chance to get tickets ... armitt-library-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-libra...

19 hiking miles for me this week. Highlight was the Pasturebeck Round from Hartsop today, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social (4 Wainwrights)! Pics are looking S (towards Windermere) and N (towards Ullswater) from the mid-point, the col of Threshthwaite Mouth. #NHS1000miles #LakeDistrict

Just 4 days to go ... The fabulous Jean Scott-Smith and John Campbell star in Readings from the Grasmere Dialect Plays at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside at 2 pm on Wed 13 August. Don't miss it! Tickets here: armitt-library-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-libra...

Martin Shaw was superb in a brilliant production of "A Man for All Seasons" at the Harold Pinter Theatre tonight (and they don't build theatres like that anymore ...)

Coming soon (13 August) at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside ...

14 more hiking miles this week, for a year-to-date total of 770 so far. Highlight was the corridor route up Scafell Pike on Wed #nhs1000miles

Extraordinary story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating visit to the Moorforge Viking Settlement for the Lakeland Dialect Society's summer outing today

Less than two weeks to go until THE event of the summer: the Grasmere Dialect Plays at the Armitt, starring Jean Scott-Smith & John Campbell Tickets from: armitt-library-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-libra... We were rehearsing today In Kendal:

Fantastic hike yesterday: Scafell Pike by the Corridor Route. Thanks to @sharonkennedy.bsky.social - founder of the fab new business, "Team Tortoise". Highly recommended!

A riveting read! Will undoubtedly increase your admiration for the work being done by the Open Justice Court of Protection Project

Superb Wainwright exhibition currently on at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside. Congrats to Chris Butterfield (the AW Archivist) on putting this together to mark the 70th anniversary of the first Pictorial Guide. Don't miss it!

Fascinating insight into the history, art & craft of @fellranger.bsky.social's line drawings @ArmittMuseum this morning. Here he is with a poignant image of Sycamore Gap. Spot the Wainwright influence! Many thanks Mark for a great talk.

[email protected] Hoping some of your followers will be interested in this event at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside on 13 August. It'll be great fun, as well as informative! Tickets from: www.armitt.com/event-direct... (scroll down to 13 Aug)

[email protected] Hoping some of your followers will be interested in this event at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside on 13 August. It'll be great fun, as well as informative! Tickets from: www.armitt.com/event-direct... (scroll down to 13 Aug)

[email protected] Hoping some of your followers will be interested in this event at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside on 13 August. It'll be great fun, as well as informative! Tickets from: www.armitt.com/event-direct... (scroll down to 13 Aug)

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

Weather somewhat less kind for the second half of our Swiss hiking holiday - but landscapes perhaps more dramatic because of it. Another 40.5 hiking miles to add to my total. #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Or just love the Lake District? This course surely can't be bettered - and now available part-time ...

Do come along to this event on 13 August at the Armiit Museum in Ambleside. I guarantee it'll be fun! Tickets: www.armitt.com/event-direct... (scroll down)

51 hiking miles this week, in the stunning Bernese Oberland. Highlight was a 12-miler to the Eiger glaciers (c. 1000 metres ascent, 1250 metres descent). #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Atypical #nhs1000miles Sun eve post from me. Just 18 hiking miles in the last fortnight, for a YTD total of 692 miles. Have been catching up with old friends and being a city tourist! Here are some pics of London by night. @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Sharing @kitzingercelia.bsky.social's world this week: Royal Courts of Justice, Inns of Court, & First Avenue House - where I attended a Court of Protection hearing (my first)

A walk down memory lane (aka The Strand) this week. It's 19 years since our High Court case seeking legal recognition of our marriage in England & Wales - bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH... - was heard at the Royal Courts of Justice. @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Come along to the Armitt Museum, Ambleside at 2 pm on 13 August! I'll be introducing readings from the Grasmere Dialect Plays by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society. Tickets: armitt-library-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-libra...

Weather forecast today: "Feeling sub-zero in the wind, nearer -5C higher tops in the morning"; "by later in the week, risk of more extensive upland gales and some heavier rain" [https://mwis.org.uk/forecasts/english-and-welsh/lake-district] It's summer in the #LakeDistrict!

Highlight of 32 boots-on hiking miles this week was the 10-in-10 challenge yesterday: a fantastic locally-organised event raising money for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social (VERY hot & humid, with bursts of torrential rain & evening thunderstorms!) #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

After the event (the 10-in-10) ... Thanks to the brilliant organising team and all the marshalls @mssocietyuk.bsky.social @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."