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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 4h

NW Lakes this morning Off to Borrowdale later to meet the hardy folk who are doing #GableRamble for charity

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 4h

“Books are Ghost Magnets 🧲” Yes 📚 👻

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inversion over the River Evenlode

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition @britishmuseum.bsky.social is absolutely wonderful and the icing on the cake was tea in the new member space by the Montagu Place entrance

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How green is my garden and how lovely are my cyclamens 💚🤍💜

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Pigs in **** cupcakes and more conventional winners at #KeswickShow @pudslyn.bsky.social

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Farms in trays by Cumbrian children in the industrial tent at Keswick Show 🐂🐄🫏🐖🐏🐑🐐

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

FUCK IT! Who'd like to win a signed book from me & Jim? 3 of these going to 3 randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. YOU MIGHT LIKE IT IF YOU LIKE: Weird stones Bookshops Mysterious pensioners Badgers The devil fungi Deer Pixies Sample story here: www.tom-cox.com/the-date/

Our massive brilliant orange cat Jim on some grass with my new collection of short stories

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Adam Wear’s Champion Herdwick and Overall Champion at Patterdale on Saturday and at Keswick today; apparently they are different tups 🐏🐏 🏆

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A very big ladder stile with bridge over Cornish-style hedge made of earth, stone and gorse, near St Bees on Solway Coast for #StileSaturday @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Birthday treat at St Bees: a great white egret fishing the rock pools Wondered if it might be a heron but @soapywittank.bsky.social thought egret and that seems likely @everyheron.bsky.social

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thrilled to find Ian Lawson’s big book on Herdwicks in Oxfam Bookshop St Giles at just over half published price 😁🐑🐑🐑

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Slabs, gate, walls and handrail in pleasing harmony 🩶🖤💚

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wonderful news: I was part of a campaign which publicised the plight of Binchester when the Church Commissioners tried to sell it off piecemeal in 2014

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Step & squeeze stile on bridge at Stainforth, above waterfalls #StileSaturday

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Eerie twilight at maximum coverage of Sun (96%); only photo which shows Moon leaving Sun’s disc taken nearer sunset when phone didn’t adjust so much

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Pinhole images of crescent Sun through leaves

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Pinhole camera images of crescent Sun projected onto shed wall through chink in slate roof (pic 4) ☀️🌙

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One for @conecclesia.bsky.social though not ecclesiastical: cone off duty in its rural home on the outskirts of Settle, Yorkshire

Dilapidated brick and stone shed with traffic cone in doorway

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

1999 eclipse booklet and intact viewing glasses found so all set for tomorrow Partial Eclipse viewers: stand under a tree and you will see crescent Suns on the ground, created by the leaves’ pinhole cameras - magical ☀️🌙🌙🌙

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Double squeeze stiles in Giggleswick #StileSaturday

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Gated stile with bonus Madonna and child, and drumlins. What other account would bring you religious iconography, glacial deposition content and boundary crossings? Not many eh?? Dodding Green, Kendal.

Small pedestrian gate in stone wall . On the right a circular recess in which there is a statue of a woman holding a child. Beyond, rounded hills with mature trees forming a boundary on the right hand side

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ten minutes of rain in West Oxon this morning; first for a month

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Highlight of ARLT Summer School final evening entertainment at Giggleswick last week was group who mimed scenes from The Odyssey - everyone shouted the answers before they’d acted more than 10 secs of each The fate of Melanthius (not this one) needed a trigger warning ⚠️ 🤣

Latin teachers miming a scene from The Odyssey

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I may have to admit that Yorkshire stile trump Lake District stiles, in many cases

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some of this week’s Yorkshire step n squeeze stone stiles with little gates, near Settle - there were dozens 😍 @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Chris S @puddleswellies.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#StileSaturday Chunktastic is the name of the game: See me and quiver, dendro stiles! 😅 Coming from Steppy Down into the top of St Erth #WalkingInCornwall #superstilin #Kernow #StErth #hiking @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nicely graduated stone step through stile below Blencathra Don’t know why the yellow triangle has a picture of a bus on it 🤷‍♀️ #StileSaturday @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

3 hours in cinema during the afternoon and this evening’s walk across the fields to the pub felt like Ithaca Yes, film brilliant cinematographically, but troubling losses in story and character subtlety #classics

View across field of crops towards forest on skyline

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is there anybody going to listen to my story All about the gull who came to stay

Our cat Jim meets Rod Gull, the most greedy and thuggish herring gull in our neighbourhood, who popped into my wife's craft room to knock a few things over just for the hell of it.

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

One of many sturdy ladder stiles above Threlkeld #StileSaturday

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Most of my hollyhocks are deep shades of pink, but some are salmon pink, some white, and the ones by the hydrangea are a matching shade of pale 🩷💕

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Got back to Oxon to find the hollyhocks had reached 7ft on either side the washing line; needed a bit of juggling to hang out 🧺🌺

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Clipped the Monstrous Shrub yesterday 🤪 Planted by mum 50 yrs ago at Cumbrian cottage it is supposed to conceal the septic tank, but the rampant bunnies have eaten the lower part so it doesn’t 🙄 The leaves are leathery and dusty so the experience was horrible 😬

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

For those, like @lakesstiles.bsky.social & @tutty352.bsky.social , who need a 🐑 🧵 with Herdies included 🐏🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Open garden at local Manor House this afternoon: village church from different perspective

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Unexpected orchid in hedgerow on walk the other day #Wildflowerhour

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Mullein on footpath, West Oxfordshire: a plant which appears and disappears mysteriously, but has flowered here two years running #Wildflowerhour

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Field poppies and flax ❤️💙

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A juvenile green woodpecker flew from the oak to the hawthorn in my woodland garden and circled the trunk silently and camouflaged “Annihilatiing all that’s made / To a green thought in a green shade” 💚