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Eileen Jones
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Journalist, author of parkrun books, PR, storyteller. Has served afternoon tea on the summit of Loughrigg. Of course I know my barcode number🙄
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Celebrate the news!

Not only can I not name our local (local?!?) Police & Crime Commissioner, but when the first PCC election was held the vote was won by “Spoiled ballots papers”.

This shouldn’t have taken so long.

What comes next had better be better.
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Proud of Matt Staniek and Chris Hodgson youtu.be/R2NMWYt9U1c?...
What's Really Polluting England's Largest Lake
YouTube video by Save Windermere
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November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🥾 Celebrate 60 years of the Pennine Way by joining @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social, @anitasethi.bsky.social & myself at Todmorden Book Festival on 9th November. We’ll be discussing what this remarkable trail means to use & reading extracts from our books. todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Highly commended award for excellence, from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, for Gritstone author (and founder) @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social : The Borders, The Lands We Share. Buy your copy here: gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/bord...
October 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Back where I belong . And with the A team!🥰
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Freedom to roam? What's next? @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social looks back - and ahead - here gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/cam... Come and join us to hear more, Hebden Bridge Nov 29 @ramblers.org.uk @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Any pork pie fans out there? youtu.be/erWP4yJdOU4?... Or Stilton cheese?
An English Town That Time Forgot
YouTube video by Wandering Turnip
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October 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The wise - and green - way to explore the Lakes if you're coming for the first time www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#go...
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Our books are distributed by Cordee if bookshops are struggling to find our stock. But you can also order direct from us, with free p&p, and we have a fantastic range of outdoors titles gritstonecoop.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Looking forward very much to hosting this symposium at our Ambleside campus tomorrow. We have a fantastic line up of speakers including Dr David Cooper as keynote and a number of our MA graduates who are giving papers 📚🍃 #LiteraryLandscapes
Booking is now open for a free full-day symposium on the work of 20th-century Cumbrian poet, playwright and topographical writer, Norman Nicholson, on Sat 27 Sept at the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus. See here for further details and guidance on booking your place: www.normannicholson.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Fabulous review of a fantastic show at @tbtlake.bsky.social Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. The highest standards at a great regional theatre stageylady.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...
Take three….
Di and Viv and Rose: Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Di and Viv and Rose is clearly a play about three women but the title belies thecomplexities of their story. This beautifully constructed work cent…
stageylady.wordpress.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Points out the facts, not the right wing racist lies.
Incomers: through the barricades – a matter of curiosity?

Xenophobia fuels myths about migrants, but facts show asylum seekers enrich the UK and face hardship, not handouts or criminality

By Jeremy Leslie-Spinks
Incomers: through the barricades – a matter of curiosity?
Xenophobia fuels myths about migrants, but facts show asylum seekers enrich the UK and face hardship, not handouts or criminality
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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On Saturday @drdavidcooper.bsky.social is keynote speaker for the 3rd Norman Nicholson symposium @cumbriauni.bsky.social Ambleside Campus.

The theme this year will be Place, Space and Time in Norman Nicholson’s work.

#AcademicSky #Poetry #LakeDistrict

www.normannicholson.org
Norman Nicholson Society
Information about the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson who lived in Millom from 1914 to 1987 and information about the Norman Nicholson Society
www.normannicholson.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Wandering Turnip sure started something when he went to Horden northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/hist... Here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbK...
£20,000 Houses In A Boarded Up Seaside Town!
YouTube video by Wandering Turnip
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September 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Authors should _never_ look in bookshops for their titles. That way lies despair. But my eye was nevertheless caught in @waterstones.bsky.social in #York by my latest book peeping out at me. Books by my @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleagues also on the shelves. Nil desperandum.
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Inisder's view of the UK's only publishing co-op, from our newest member gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/ste...
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Wasn’t it just!!!!!
Wow this was amazing 🤩
BBC Radio 3
BBC Proms 2025

Now Playing
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Elim Chan, Sam Oladeinde, Louise Alder, Alison Balsom, BBC Singers, National Youth Choir & BBC Symphony Chorus
Bohemian Rhapsody
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
September 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
For #parkrun fans, just to let you know that both parkrun books are now reprinted; signed copies available from publisher, free p&p. gritstonecoop.co.uk/product-cate... @allypallyparkrun.bsky.social @southwarkparkrun.bsky.social @southwarkparkrun.bsky.social @cannonhparkrun.bsky.social PLS SHARE 🥰
September 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Turning musical theatre upside down! Brilliant performances from all at Theatre@41 in York stageylady.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/d...
September 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM