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Jill Holliday

@jillholl.bsky.social

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Semi-retired software bod, trying to spend more time with my camera and outside, up a fell if possible. Photography, wildlife, pottery, gardening. Love and teach skiing, particularly adaptive.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4h

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4h

Good job you didn't! We just saw a couple of people up there. But the visibility was better - improved just as we were deciding whether to go up or just back via the other side of Langstrath.

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 15h

Really beautiful 😀

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 16h

Oh dear, you'll both be exhausted ☹️ Fingers crossed for an improvement

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 16h

I rather like the bleakness! But do remember when we carried on up there that it got wetter and wetter underfoot 💦

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 1d

Hope she's better soon Sarah

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 1d

I like the adjective! It was fun but not sure we'll be choosing that route again - actually harder work in the bogs near the top than the much steeper fellside below 😀 But it does always feel good when you're trying something different.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 1d

#LakeDistrictDiary day 3 Monday
@seatollerhouse1624.bsky.social along Langstrath to the bottom of Stake Pass, then up the fellside (no path) and through the bogs to Sergeant Crag, then Eagle Crag. Late lunch, then back down alongside Greenup Gill and back in time for tea!

Langstrath trees in the mist - dark rocks and bracken

Top of Sergeant Crag in the shade, sun on the fells beyond

A herdwick sheep looks up from its munching to gaze at the camera

Birches on the fells turning yellow against the orange bracken

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely fox Sarah 😀

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

Langstrath trees for today's #Sharemondays2025

A few trees line the top of a crag, half visible in the low cloud. Fellside and rocks are in dark russets, greys and greens.

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic!

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

The second sounds preferable!

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

I guess they would have done a refurb by then - Dad said there were about 15 of them to a cabin.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

I love the shot, it definitely captures the city, was there at uni

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 2d

My Dad came back from the US on the Queen Mary when it was a troop ship

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 3d

#LakeDistrictDiary day 2 Sunday
The weather was a lot better than expected although rather windy, so we had a lovely walk around Buttermere 😀
Little sun and a bit squally but some great colours 🍂

View from the Southern end of Buttermere up to the lower slopes of Fleetwith Pike and part of Haystacks. Bracken in burnt oranges and a group of dark green firs in the foreground

View up Buttermere from the south, bronzy grasses and a stream in the foreground, high fells behind

Dark firs line the southern end of Buttermere at the foot of the Fleetwith Pike ridge. Choppy water

Dark branches hold a few bronze leaves on the near side of Buttermere, green fell slopes on the far side

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 3d

What a fantastic shot!

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 3d

Whose stiles are you calling murky? 🤣

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you Sharon, was rather a good day!

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

Glad it didn't!

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful Brenda, wow!

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Celia, they were lovely even without much sun 😀

Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

#LakeDistrictDiary day 1 Saturday
Not much sun but still a rather enjoyable circular walk from @seatollerhouse1624.bsky.social over Great Crag to Watendlath and back 😊

Silver river from the bridge at Stonethwaithe as it's caught by some of the few sunrays we had today. Autumn colours alongside and Eagle Crag in the distance

Beautiful autumn colours in the trees below Great Crag from the path up from Stonethwaite, looking over towards the fells around Great Gable

Eagle Crag and Sergeant Crag in Langstrath framed by deep orangey-bronze trees below Great Crag

Looking out across a wall with a stile to Langstrath and its crags under grey cloud

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

Looks fab John, and no clag in sight! 😀

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 4d

I have the same problem. I haven't checked enough to know if it's particular people's that are missing, but I often don't see the judge's selections and have to go back and see who won the previous week then go to their posts. But as others have pointed out, I don't know what else I'm missing.

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