Glorious walking - and dipping! - in the #LakeDistrict, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

My modest 20 hiking miles this week were all about heather, becks and grassland. #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Entranced last week by the detail in the 1873 Burne-Jones, Brown & Morris east window in Troutbeck Church. Favourite images: trout in the beck; angels with sun & moon; Noah holding his ark #LakeDistrict

27 hiking miles this week. Pics are from yesterday (looking towards the Kentmere fells from above the Troutbeck valley) and today (the iron age fort on Carrock Fell) #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

A little sunlight on Fleetwith Pike this afternoon #LakeDistrict

Heather showing well on the way up Outerside this afternoon (even though it was a tad wet and windy on the top) #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Fascinating talk - 1st in a series - tonight at Hawkshead Grammar School Museum: historian Beth Williams on the impact of WW1 on Beatrix Potter & the Sawrey villages. Lovely building & great to chat to folk afterwards too! Can't wait to do a library tour [Pic from @HawksheadGSM on X]

Recently back from a great 10 days hiking - and lake swimming! - in the Zugspitz region of Austria (pics). Together with hikes in the #LakeDistrict before and after that trip, it's 124.5 miles to add to my total. YTD now stands at 557.5 miles. #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Making the most of a gorgeous sunny day in the #LakeDistrict with a swim in Red Tarn, beneath Helvellyn's summit plateau. Thanks Pete & Steve of 'Swim the Lakes' for the impeccable logistics! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

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

.@kitzingercelia.bsky.social 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

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

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

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