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Ann Gate

@ceadela.bsky.social
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Erstwhile secondhand bookseller and Classics teacher; Cumbria and Oxfordshire

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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Shared some travel gulls with Cap’n earlier, sitting next to Derwentwater Gluggate #memories
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Disappointing for all that Wasdale Show was cancelled, but the light between heavy showers above Wasdale Head was spectacular this afternoon 🌈
Napes Ridge, Great Gable Sunlight on green fields looking towards Wastwater from lower slopes of Great GableSilver light on WastwaterRainbow on russet fellside, Wasdale
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Landskein from Wasdale Head this evening @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I had so wanted to continue Saturday’s walk up Ruddy Gill to the path round to Sprinkling Tarn that I went back to do it yesterday ⛰️
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And on the other side of Seathwaite Fell at Styhead before descent via Taylor Gill to Stockley Bridge
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Grains Gill above Seathwaite
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sunset in North West Cumbria
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Walked up Grains Gill from Seathwaite to meet the #GableRamble team coming down on a perfect October afternoon @tutty352.bsky.social
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
Oxford view from Rose Place on 29th September #Michaelmas @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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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 · 25/09/2026
So, here’s 5 Northmoor Rd, Oxford: Alec Guinness walked up to that red front door and visited his old colleague Connie in that downstairs room. My bedsit (1977-84) was on 1st floor looking out on garden @dannybate.com @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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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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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
Excellent day and a fine Herdwick tup as Champion and Best in Show for Adam Weir 🐏
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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 · 28/08/2026
Met two brown donks near St Bees yesterday 🤎🤎 @lakesstiles.bsky.social @tutty352.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 · 27/08/2026
Rain didn’t arrive until 4.30, by which time I was on the path back from Rottington so didn’t get soaked. Cliff top path from St Bees to Fleswick closed for foreseeable due to landslides so had to make long detour
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Breakfast at St Bees Cafe ☕️
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wheely chapel gate in West Oxon for @lakesstiles.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 · 15/08/2026
This is the Durham County Archaeologist showing a group of Latin teachers round the newly excavated baths in July 2014: Pompeii of the North 😄🏛️
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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 · 14/08/2026
Nah, Perspex gifte shoppe tat (2 sides of one) This, on the other hand is glass, and was my favourite
Mini paper shop in glass bottle
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yes (Cornwall, early 1960s); don’t think they had a name
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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
Your photos are amazing These are pinhole images through chink in slate roof of shed in my garden 🌙
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Colander was useless but got some nice pinhole images through chink in shed roof slates ☀️🌙☀️🌙
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the pic from StileCup 2023, by @becclestown, who lost in Round 3 tiebreak to Jen Scotney
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
OK here are all the StileCup Cornish stiles which made it through Round 1: pics 1,2&3 are SC 2023 - 1st was @becclestown who lost in tiebreak to Jen Scotney in R3; other 2 are same stile as @pennyrollson who just lost to Quintin Lake in semi- final of SC 2021
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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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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
Most of them on the above-riverside route to the Stainforth Force waterfalls - well worth the stile-climbs
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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 more 😄
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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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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
But what about THIS? A twofer, stone step n ladder combo - I climbed both of course! Near Settle, Yorkshire 😄
Stone step stile and wooden ladder stile next to each other
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Looking at Blencathra, early July #StileSaturday
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Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mini blue tin shed would be companion for my mini wooden garden shed 😊
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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
Film poster for Nolan’s OdysseyView across field of crops towards forest on skyline
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