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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks - and that is not a bad idea at all ...

Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 4h

Today I 'bagged' my 100th Wainwright summit (Rest Dodd) since my second knee replacement in January. There might be a little celebration tonight ... @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 4h

First deer walk of the rutting season, above Patterdale with the Keswick Roamers. Thanks to Lena Dacuna for logistics & deer-spotting eye! Surprised to see 3 stags together - anyone know how long the dominant male will tolerate youngsters? @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The new series of 'Cultural Landscapes' talks - hosted by @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social - kicked off at @cumbriauni.bsky.social tonight, with a packed room for Dean Hines's visually-rich presentation on "Turner Amongst the Fells". Looking forward to more!

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A day late with my weekly #nhs1000miles posting (blame rehearsals for the #GrasmereDialectPlays yesterday). A varied walking week, with a little scrambling, and a total of 37 miles. @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rehearsals today for the historic return of the @grasdialectplays.bsky.social 'home' to Grasmere on 10 October - huge fun! Now just to add the music ... Tickets still available: ticketsource.com/grasmere-vil... @grasdialectplays.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chuffed to be on today's CACN zoom chat re our upcoming revival of the Grasmere Dialect Plays. Lakeland Dialect Soc perform plays + fiddle music from Carolyn Francis & songs from Sue Allan. 10 Oct, 7 pm, Grasmere Village Hall.Great neet oot! Tickets from Ticketsource.com/grasmere-village-hall-co-ltd

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Outstanding performances from Eireann Devlin, Christine Entwisle & Roberta Kerr in 'The Farmer's Wife' @tbtlake.bsky.social Keswick tonight. Captivating & moving production. H/T to Hannah Khalil @hannykha.bsky.social for the script & Liz Stevenson as Director too. Brava all!

Programme cover for 'The Farmer's Wife' at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick

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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

Only two weeks to go until the Grasmere Dialect Plays come home to Grasmere. Don't miss it! 7 pm, Sat 10 Oct, in the Grasmere Village Hall. Tickets from: www.ticketsource.com/grasmere-vil...

Photo montage of stills from the original Grasmere Dialect Plays, and this year's rehearsals and readings

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Interested in postgraduate study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies?Join me at our Open Day on Sat 3 Oct to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events-calen...

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Delighted that the Autumn 2026 newsletter of the Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas @cumbriauni.bsky.social features our 10 October Grasmere Dialect Plays event in Grasmere. Tickets available from: ticketsource.com/grasmere-vil... Git thysel a ticket noo - it’ll be a grand neet oot!

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tickets now on sale for the return of the Grasmere Dialect Plays to Grasmere, after nearly 100 years. Come & see for yourself how the plays are just as fresh and entertaining now as when first performed! Tickets from >Ticketsource.com/Grasmere-village-hall-co-ltd< or Barney's Newsbox, Grasmere

Poster advertising Grasmere Dialect Plays event in Grasmere Hall, 7 pm, 10 October 2026

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You and Beatrix look a lot happier in the sun today! Congratulations!

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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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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

I was in the 'Culture Corner' at the Grasmere Show today - on the Lakeland Dialect Society stand. Lots of interest in our upcoming performance of the Grasmere Dialect Plays - come & join us on 10 Oct at Grasmere Village Hall. More at: @grasdialectplays.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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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thinking about a new career direction or undertaking PG study in the fields of literary and cultural studies this September? Find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism, and the English Lake District (with full & part time study options available): www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/course...

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And testament to the wonderful MA course in 'Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District' that underpinned and inspired the research. Now available part-time - check it out @cumbriauni.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE! On 10 October 2026, the Grasmere Dialect Plays will come 'home' to Grasmere Village Hall - for the first time since 1937. Re-created for C21st by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society & accompanied by fiddler Carolyn Francis & folklorist Sue Allan - it'll be a night to remember!

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Dry shod over the stile and round beneath Friar's Crag to reach the low water plaques - no longer submerged - in Derwentwater today. Time for a 2026 one, Natalie Evans (Keswick Mayor)? #LakeDistrict

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

27 boots-on hiking miles this week - focusing on swim spots for our guests. (Thanks to 'Suzanna Swims' for the last 2 - more distant ones - pictured here!) #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes! Passed it many times, but first time I've been in

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

H.H. Symonds' (1933) Walking in the Lake District, on Helvellyn's shelter: "the litter will make you physically sick-paper, rotted jam sandwiches, orange peel, broken bottles, jagged sardine tins". He blames "the char-a-banc owners of Morcambe Bay" for dumping 'hikers' below ... Plus ca change?

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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

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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 · 29/07/2026

A little sunlight on Fleetwith Pike this afternoon #LakeDistrict

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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 · 27/07/2026

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]

Front of Hawkshead Grammar School Building, under blue skies

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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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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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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What more could NZ do to protect the amazing kakapo - and what a challenging task to attempt

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Brilliant news, Penny! Huge congratulations on both awards. You and your lovely book are very worthy winners! @cumbriauni.bsky.social

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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!

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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

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