Sue Wilkinson
@suewilkinson.bsky.social
Lake District landscape, literature, history and culture. #GrasmereDialectPlays Fell-walking, landscape photography, geology. #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Twitter: @sue_wilkinson
Twitter: @sue_wilkinson
Creative afternoon being tutored by the head gardener -Ken Swift - at the Lingholm Estate in the art of festive wreath-making. All materials, except the spices, were from the Estate gardens & we were based in the original (1871) greenhouse
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Creative afternoon being tutored by the head gardener -Ken Swift - at the Lingholm Estate in the art of festive wreath-making. All materials, except the spices, were from the Estate gardens & we were based in the original (1871) greenhouse
It's 30.5 boots-on hiking miles for me since I last posted for #nhs1000miles
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
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Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
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November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's 30.5 boots-on hiking miles for me since I last posted for #nhs1000miles
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Another literary pilgrimage today: below Blencathra, past Tewet Tarn, over Low Rigg & into St John's in the Vale - where 19th Century stonemason, schoolmaster & dialect poet John Richardson lived & is buried (in the graveyard of the church he built)
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Another literary pilgrimage today: below Blencathra, past Tewet Tarn, over Low Rigg & into St John's in the Vale - where 19th Century stonemason, schoolmaster & dialect poet John Richardson lived & is buried (in the graveyard of the church he built)
Minus 4 degrees at Castlerigg stone circle this morning - and we had it to ourselves. (That's @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Minus 4 degrees at Castlerigg stone circle this morning - and we had it to ourselves. (That's @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
Little vid of snow-covered Blencathra and Skiddaw from Low Brandelhow this morning (+ some bonus geese under the trees) #LakeDistrict
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Little vid of snow-covered Blencathra and Skiddaw from Low Brandelhow this morning (+ some bonus geese under the trees) #LakeDistrict
Four views of #Skiddaw from this morning:
from #Portinscale; across Nichol End Marine; from Lingholm Kitchen (walled garden in foreground); and across #Derwentwater (greylag and canada geese under the trees)
#LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
from #Portinscale; across Nichol End Marine; from Lingholm Kitchen (walled garden in foreground); and across #Derwentwater (greylag and canada geese under the trees)
#LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Four views of #Skiddaw from this morning:
from #Portinscale; across Nichol End Marine; from Lingholm Kitchen (walled garden in foreground); and across #Derwentwater (greylag and canada geese under the trees)
#LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
from #Portinscale; across Nichol End Marine; from Lingholm Kitchen (walled garden in foreground); and across #Derwentwater (greylag and canada geese under the trees)
#LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Tupping underway in the local fields. The texel ram (centre left) has a raddle bag with yellow marking powder - just look at those yellow bums! The herdwick ram (centre right) wasn't too happy ... #LakeDistrict
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Tupping underway in the local fields. The texel ram (centre left) has a raddle bag with yellow marking powder - just look at those yellow bums! The herdwick ram (centre right) wasn't too happy ... #LakeDistrict
Got all Wordsworthian seeing recent post from @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social about Lowick Common.
1st extract is from Dorothy's journal of 3 Oct 1800;
2nd is from William's "Resolution & Independence", written 1802, published 1807.
For more info, see: www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...
1st extract is from Dorothy's journal of 3 Oct 1800;
2nd is from William's "Resolution & Independence", written 1802, published 1807.
For more info, see: www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Got all Wordsworthian seeing recent post from @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social about Lowick Common.
1st extract is from Dorothy's journal of 3 Oct 1800;
2nd is from William's "Resolution & Independence", written 1802, published 1807.
For more info, see: www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...
1st extract is from Dorothy's journal of 3 Oct 1800;
2nd is from William's "Resolution & Independence", written 1802, published 1807.
For more info, see: www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...
Just 11 hiking miles for me this week; largely in the woods, as so wet and windy up on the fells. #LakeDistrict #NHS1000miles
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just 11 hiking miles for me this week; largely in the woods, as so wet and windy up on the fells. #LakeDistrict #NHS1000miles
All Souls' Day, with Phillip Gate's soul cakes at our Lakeland Dialect Society meeting:
"T' bairns are oot wi' their masks an' their clouts,
Beggin' for soul-cakes frae hoose tae hoose,
'A penny for t' guy, or a farthin' for fun,'
But mind yer winders-they'll soot 'em wi' glee!"
(Ethel Fisher)
"T' bairns are oot wi' their masks an' their clouts,
Beggin' for soul-cakes frae hoose tae hoose,
'A penny for t' guy, or a farthin' for fun,'
But mind yer winders-they'll soot 'em wi' glee!"
(Ethel Fisher)
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
All Souls' Day, with Phillip Gate's soul cakes at our Lakeland Dialect Society meeting:
"T' bairns are oot wi' their masks an' their clouts,
Beggin' for soul-cakes frae hoose tae hoose,
'A penny for t' guy, or a farthin' for fun,'
But mind yer winders-they'll soot 'em wi' glee!"
(Ethel Fisher)
"T' bairns are oot wi' their masks an' their clouts,
Beggin' for soul-cakes frae hoose tae hoose,
'A penny for t' guy, or a farthin' for fun,'
But mind yer winders-they'll soot 'em wi' glee!"
(Ethel Fisher)
29 miles this week - and that takes me over the #nhs1000miles goal (the earliest in the year I've ever met it)! My YTD is now 1021 boots-on hiking miles.
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
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Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
29 miles this week - and that takes me over the #nhs1000miles goal (the earliest in the year I've ever met it)! My YTD is now 1021 boots-on hiking miles.
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Soggy morning in Keswick, visiting the Cumbria Life Home & Gift Fair: a chance to see inside the newly-renovated Cumberland Pencil Factory (+ eat, drink, browse & shop).
Best bit: finding that the free - advertising - copies of
Cumbria Life magazine contain my article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays!
Best bit: finding that the free - advertising - copies of
Cumbria Life magazine contain my article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays!
October 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Soggy morning in Keswick, visiting the Cumbria Life Home & Gift Fair: a chance to see inside the newly-renovated Cumberland Pencil Factory (+ eat, drink, browse & shop).
Best bit: finding that the free - advertising - copies of
Cumbria Life magazine contain my article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays!
Best bit: finding that the free - advertising - copies of
Cumbria Life magazine contain my article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays!
A quartet from a 7-mile bimble by the lake & along Catbells terrace this afternoon: very cold wind despite the sun #Derwentwater #Keswick #LakeDistrict
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A quartet from a 7-mile bimble by the lake & along Catbells terrace this afternoon: very cold wind despite the sun #Derwentwater #Keswick #LakeDistrict
Deer-stalking in Martindale with the Roamers again today (other side of the valley from 2 weeks ago). Just as spectacular: the rut is still in full swing! Highlight was seeing this stag rolling in a wallow ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Deer-stalking in Martindale with the Roamers again today (other side of the valley from 2 weeks ago). Just as spectacular: the rut is still in full swing! Highlight was seeing this stag rolling in a wallow ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
In London for a celebration. The Mary Beale arboretum looked gorgeous in the rain ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In London for a celebration. The Mary Beale arboretum looked gorgeous in the rain ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Added 32 more boots-on hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Highlights were THOSE #LakeDistrict inversions at the beginning of the week. (They lasted into Thursday for those who got high enough to be above the gradually-rising cloud layer.) Can't resist 4 (more) pix! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Added 32 more boots-on hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Highlights were THOSE #LakeDistrict inversions at the beginning of the week. (They lasted into Thursday for those who got high enough to be above the gradually-rising cloud layer.) Can't resist 4 (more) pix! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
"But worthier still of note
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks!—and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved"
[Wordsworth on the Borrowdale Yews]
Only 3 now - & they're sororal!
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks!—and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved"
[Wordsworth on the Borrowdale Yews]
Only 3 now - & they're sororal!
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"But worthier still of note
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks!—and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved"
[Wordsworth on the Borrowdale Yews]
Only 3 now - & they're sororal!
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks!—and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved"
[Wordsworth on the Borrowdale Yews]
Only 3 now - & they're sororal!
Inversion cloud layer between Skiddaw and Blencathra - video taken from the Skiddaw summit plateau at lunchtime today #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Inversion cloud layer between Skiddaw and Blencathra - video taken from the Skiddaw summit plateau at lunchtime today #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
30 more hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Today - back o'Skiddaw - was all about cloud inversions #LakeDistrict
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@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
30 more hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Today - back o'Skiddaw - was all about cloud inversions #LakeDistrict
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Hoping for an inversion on Skiddaw this morning - but didn't quite happen ...
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hoping for an inversion on Skiddaw this morning - but didn't quite happen ...
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Out with the Roamers today, to see/hear the red deer rut in Martindale.
Thanks Lena for leading a great walk!
Thanks Lena for leading a great walk!
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Out with the Roamers today, to see/hear the red deer rut in Martindale.
Thanks Lena for leading a great walk!
Thanks Lena for leading a great walk!
Great start to the 7th series of 'Cultural Landscapes' talks tonight: @pollyrowena.bsky.social on 'Companions of Nature' - launching the paperback edition of her book, 'The Company of Owls' @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social @samreadbookseller.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Great start to the 7th series of 'Cultural Landscapes' talks tonight: @pollyrowena.bsky.social on 'Companions of Nature' - launching the paperback edition of her book, 'The Company of Owls' @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social @samreadbookseller.bsky.social
36 more boots-on hiking miles since I last posted for #nhs1000miles
Most of these were in Madagascar, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - including in a UNESCO World Heritage site with incredible limestone formations known as 'tsingy' (pics below).
YTD: 930 hiking miles
Most of these were in Madagascar, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - including in a UNESCO World Heritage site with incredible limestone formations known as 'tsingy' (pics below).
YTD: 930 hiking miles
October 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
36 more boots-on hiking miles since I last posted for #nhs1000miles
Most of these were in Madagascar, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - including in a UNESCO World Heritage site with incredible limestone formations known as 'tsingy' (pics below).
YTD: 930 hiking miles
Most of these were in Madagascar, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - including in a UNESCO World Heritage site with incredible limestone formations known as 'tsingy' (pics below).
YTD: 930 hiking miles
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
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
For more on the Plays, head over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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
For more on the Plays, head over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social