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Celia Kitzinger

@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Promoting #OpenJustice in the Court of Protection #NotSecretCourt Check out our website: openjusticecourtofprotection.org Also all things Lake District + Cumbria including hiking, literature, & other stuff that interests me!

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stunning temperture inversion this morning over the Vale of Grasmere - and beyond. Pics from ascent of Nab Scar (first peak on a clockwise Fairfield Horseshoe). Note the spire of St Mary's Church, Ambleside in pic 2! #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
21 hiking miles in a varied-weather week here in the #LakeDistrict. #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A bumper hiking week: 44 miles and almost 5000 metres elevation gain/loss. Mostly in the Trossachs, with the fabulous Team Tortoise, & including 2 Munros, 1 Corbett, 1 Graham & 2 sets of crags. Big thanks to Sharon Kennedy for leading us. #NHS1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More Scottish island adventures - on Lewis and Skye - netting 36 hiking miles this week for #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hebridean coos - on the road to Huisinis Beach, North Harris @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Castles, beaches, beer and churches on Scottish islands this week.
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
23 Scottish hiking miles this week, amid the impressive landslips of Skye and along the glorious beaches of Harris #notthelakedistrict #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
29 boots-on hiking miles for me this week. Pics show the last of the heather descending from Carlside to Dodd, and around Trusmadoor (back of Skiddaw). #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles With @kitzingercelia.bsky.social and Claire Martin
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
18.5 hiking miles for me this week - highlight was this gorgeous outing above Ennerdale yesterday #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Beautiful hiking above Ennerdale.
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Glorious walking - and dipping! - in the #LakeDistrict, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank you to Swim the Lakes for a brilliant day out on the Helvellyn Double Dipper adventure (and the best gingerbread too!)
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just back from a week of Austrian mountain hiking - and we fitted in some swims in glacial lakes along the way as well.
Celia in gray trousers and yellow fleece (hood up, it was very windy), clutching on to the summit cross with one hand and raising hiking poles triumphantly in the other.  Mountains behind and a blue sky with puffy clouds.
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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
Group of swimmers with brightly-coloured tow floats in Red Tarn, Helvellyn. Rocks in the foreground and summit plateau as backdrop
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 22/07/2026
Stop scrolling!!! A puffling* has been spotted in Purbeck, Dorset for the first time in 30 years! *Baby puffin (yes, they have the cutest name)
A small bird - a young puffin - is seen in the gap between rocks on a cliff ledge
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Open Justice Court of Protection Project @openjusticecop.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The importance of planning for the end of life while living life to the full! Here's @kitzingercelia.bsky.social eating cake and completing the 10-peaks-in-10-hours challenge (sponsored for @mssocietyuk.bsky.social) with her Advance Decision to refuse CPR on her running bib.
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My new blog post No deprivation of liberty, says HHJ Burrows,for young woman living with constant supervision and control in annex to family home A finding made with considerable reluctance, referring to “deeply philosophically difficult” arguments openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/07/05/c...
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Considering ‘deprivation of liberty’ in a family home setting after AGNI
HHJ Burrows determined that there is no deprivation of liberty for a young woman living under constant supervision and control in an annex to the family home. It was clear from his comments in cour…
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Another day, another tarn swim #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Absolutely brilliant day on the hills for the 10-in-10 challenge (10 peaks in 10 hours) Causey, Sail, Crag Hill, Wandope, Whiteless, High Snockrigg, Robinson, Dale Head, High Spy + Maiden Moor. Sponsored for £250 for the MS Society! Thrilled to complete in under 10 hours!
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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
Celia sprinting up the final hill of the 10-in-10 challenge to the Swinside Inn (ahead of 3 other participants). Causey Pike - the first peak of the 10 - can be seen back right Celia enjoying a well-earned pint & crisps at the Swinside Inn, having completed the 10-in-10 challenge. She's wearing her finishers' T-shirt
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Advance Care Plan Day 2026 @advancecareplan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The sensational Celia Kitzinger (@kitzingercelia.bsky.social) explaining what an #ADRT is and is not during Advance Care Plan Day in 2025. 😍 ACPDay Conference 2026 tickets advancecareplanday.org/conference-2... 🆓 #ACPDay2026 #AdvanceCarePlanning
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This was tough - 8 peaks over 20 miles in 10 hours with a hail storm on Bleabury! At least I didn't need my Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment - my only health issue is sore feeet. Thank you Keswick Mountain Festival for a great day out.
Celia crossing the finishing line  at Keswick Mountain Festival (in the rain)
Image of race bib  - with race number on front and on the back the questions about medical issues and Celia's Advance Decision to Refuse Cardio-Pulmonary Rusucitation "under all circumstances even if this refusal shortens my life" - signed and witnessed which makes it a valid ADRT
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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!
View over Derwentwater from rocky summit of Peak 1 (Walla Crag). Moody skies between showersView over Keswick and Derwentwater from Peak 2 (Latrigg). The Keswick Mountain Festival site is on the lakeshore at bottom of pic. Fells beyond are Catbells, Hindscarth and RobinsonThe slopes of Skiddaw Little Man from the descent of Latrigg (summit of Skiddaw in cloud)Sue crossing the finish line for the 2 peaks challenge at Keswick Mountain Festival
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Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This was tough - 8 peaks over 20 miles in 10 hours with a hail storm on Bleabury! At least I didn't need my Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment - my only health issue is sore feeet. Thank you Keswick Mountain Festival for a great day out.
Celia crossing the finishing line  at Keswick Mountain Festival (in the rain)
Image of race bib  - with race number on front and on the back the questions about medical issues and Celia's Advance Decision to Refuse Cardio-Pulmonary Rusucitation "under all circumstances even if this refusal shortens my life" - signed and witnessed which makes it a valid ADRT
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Open Justice Court of Protection Project @openjusticecop.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New blog post by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social Does the Court of Protection have jurisdiction - post Townsend - to make declarations that treatment under the Mental Health Act is not in P's best interests? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/05/12/a...
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Anorexia, declaratory protection and the Mental Health Act: Ventilating a jurisdictional question following Townsend
Given the likelihood of an upcoming Supreme Court hearing, it may be that Townsend provides a very slender thread on which to base the Trust’s argument – or indeed, on which to delay determination …
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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
Head of Ullswater from Gowbarrow Terrace. Celia (in red) flanked by bluebells, overlooking Rydal WaterGrasmere across bluebells, from Loughrigg TerraceCelia on a rocky outcrop (not sure where I took this!)
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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
Sign on wooden post for the 'Inspired by Ullswater' Virtual Art Gallery, giving a QR code to view Mark Richards' work. Ullswater in the background.Mark Richards' linescape (pen and ink drawing) of the landscape around the head of Ullswater - from his 'Inspired by Ullswater' Virtual Art Gallery pageMy photo - from this morning (1st May 2026) of the same view of the landscape around the head of Ullswater that is depicted in Mark Richards' linescape
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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
Sue - in pink jacket - standing on the summit of Raven Crag, above ThirlmereSue - in turquoise jacket - descending GavelCelia having a lunch stop below Bleaberry Fell
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
In - and above - Watendlath yesterday (another gorgeous one in the #LakeDistrict). The farmhouse here was the home of Hugh Walpole's character, Judith Paris, in the second novel of the Herries chronicles. Week ahead looks good too! @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Sue crossing packhorse bridge in WatendlathView down to Watendlath and the tarn from start of climb up to Armboth FellSue on the way up Armboth Fell from WatendlathSue still on the way up Armboth Fell from Watendlath
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Another blue sky day in the #LakeDistrict for post-surgery Wainwright no 32: Holme Fell. Reward afterwards: first of the new season's asparagus (yum!) @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Sue walking by flooded quarry on the way up Holme FellCelia on rocky summit of Holme Fell, looking out over Coniston WaterSue perched on rocky summit of Holme Fell, with Langdale Pikes on the horizon beyondJersey royal potatoes with asparagus, Torpenhow cheddar souffle, and green beans with leeks
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Glorious sunshine, a bracing breeze, three Wainwrights, a red squirrel, a cuckoo, and an exultation of larks. Out with the Roamers today on the Loweswater fells #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Four from Raven Crag this afternoon #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
22.5 hiking miles, including 6 Wainwrights, for me this week. Here are 4 more pics from the fab Greenburn Round - with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - on Tuesday. #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exciting news! Our podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here: www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/... @countrystride.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @inspiredbylakeland.bsky.social
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#162: The Grasmere Dialect Plays
...in which we visit springtime Allan Bank to explore the forgotten phenomena of the Grasmere dialect plays – celebrations of Westmorland dialect and life that put Lakeland on the national cultural ma...
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
.@grasdialectplays.bsky.social Exciting news! Our Countrystride podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here: www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/... @countrystride.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @inspiredbylakeland.bsky.social
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#162: The Grasmere Dialect Plays
...in which we visit springtime Allan Bank to explore the forgotten phenomena of the Grasmere dialect plays – celebrations of Westmorland dialect and life that put Lakeland on the national cultural ma...
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My first post-surgery 'round': 4 Wainwrights today on the 8-mile Greenburn Round above Grasmere. Sunny beginning, increasing wind, driving rain for most of the descent. Loved it! So happy to be properly back on the fells #LakeDistrict
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Lovely up on Fleetwith Pike this morning (though had to clear litter, scatter firepits, and carry down seven abandoned water bottles ...) #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A good walking week, despite very mixed weather. 26 boots-on hiking miles, including 5 Wainwright fells. #nhs1000miles #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Fresh snow on the tops and newborn lambs in the fields this morning. Very windy in the northern #LakeDistrict
Snow-capped Skiddaw, with field of ewes and lambs in foregroundSnow-capped Grisedale Pike, with trees in mid-distance and ewe and lamb in field in foreground
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Early start to beat the holiday hordes on Catbells, on another blue sky day in the #LakeDistrict - pretty windy though. First bit of scrambling for new knee (worked OK!) and 18th Wainwright summit since surgery 12 weeks ago @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Sue scrambling up a rocky slope on Catbells, Derwentwater beyondSue at the rocky summit of Catbells, Derwentwater behind
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Quick ascent of Castle Crag this morning with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social, ahead of the coming storm #LakeDistrict
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Along the High Rigg ridge this morning, and back through St John's in the Vale. Daffs looking good at church - and stopped to pay our respects to John Richardson #LakeDistrict #dialectpoet @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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