Sue Wilkinson
@suewilkinson.bsky.social
Lake District landscape, literature, history and culture. #GrasmereDialectPlays Fell-walking, landscape photography, geology. #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Twitter: @sue_wilkinson
Twitter: @sue_wilkinson
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Final check-in of the year for #nhs1000miles. My total boots-on hiking miles for 2025 is 1107. Pics are from a few unexpected miles in the last week: post shingles and pre (left) knee replacement on 10 January.
I love these images - but wouldn't have the discipline to do this kind of photography myself
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Slime mould - a hidden wonderland brought to life in photos
Meet Barry Webb and his award-winning images of the tiny world of slime mould.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I love these images - but wouldn't have the discipline to do this kind of photography myself
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Sue Wilkinson
#poetry #event #cumbria January 8th will mark the 112th anniversary of Norman Nicholson's birth in 1914. Do join us for an online Zoom Celebration (7.30-9.00pm) with poems by Nicholson and contemporary Cumbrian poets. Contact normannicholsonsociety@gmail.com to register.
www.normannicholson.org
www.normannicholson.org
December 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Final check-in of the year for #nhs1000miles. My total boots-on hiking miles for 2025 is 1107. Pics are from a few unexpected miles in the last week: post shingles and pre (left) knee replacement on 10 January.
December 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Final check-in of the year for #nhs1000miles. My total boots-on hiking miles for 2025 is 1107. Pics are from a few unexpected miles in the last week: post shingles and pre (left) knee replacement on 10 January.
This morning on Fleetwith Pike - with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social. Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This morning on Fleetwith Pike - with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social. Merry Christmas everyone!
Thrilled that Mark Richards used my Nov photo of Skiddaw across Derwentwater as a reference pic for this wonderful pen-&-ink drawing. Also that his drawing illustrated Countrystride's 'Christmas Cracker' podcast: www.countrystride.co.uk @fellranger.bsky.social @countrystride.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thrilled that Mark Richards used my Nov photo of Skiddaw across Derwentwater as a reference pic for this wonderful pen-&-ink drawing. Also that his drawing illustrated Countrystride's 'Christmas Cracker' podcast: www.countrystride.co.uk @fellranger.bsky.social @countrystride.bsky.social
Reposted by Sue Wilkinson
Some much-needed good news, including
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Some much-needed good news, including
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
• renewables overtake coal as source of electricity globally
• new oceans protections pledged in the High Seas Treaty
• landmark litigation to facilitate accountability for climate breakdown
• indigenous wins at COP
🌱❣️🌊
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Enjoyed the live Solstice sunrise broadcast from this spectacular Irish passage tomb this morning - even tho' the sun wasn't as co-operative as last year! #NewgrangeSolstice
Happy Solstice 2025
Watch live: Winter Solstice sunrise from ancient tomb at Newgrange #newgrangesolstice #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Watch live: Winter Solstice sunrise from ancient tomb at Newgrange #newgrangesolstice #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Watch live: Winter Solstice sunrise from ancient tomb at Newgrange
OPW and National Monuments Services arrange online broadcast on Sunday morning for sunrise
www.irishtimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Enjoyed the live Solstice sunrise broadcast from this spectacular Irish passage tomb this morning - even tho' the sun wasn't as co-operative as last year! #NewgrangeSolstice
Well, this is one #nhs1000miles post I hadn't anticipated. It's 0 hiking miles for me this week - not because I've had a (second) knee replacement (scheduled for yesterday), but because I've gone down with shingles. It's nasty! Surgery will now be delayed for at least a month...
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Well, this is one #nhs1000miles post I hadn't anticipated. It's 0 hiking miles for me this week - not because I've had a (second) knee replacement (scheduled for yesterday), but because I've gone down with shingles. It's nasty! Surgery will now be delayed for at least a month...
A post for map nerds, from @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
The triple alignment between true north, magnetic north and grid north will leave England tomorrow (at Berwick-on-Tweed) and won't return for hundreds of years
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kQ...
The triple alignment between true north, magnetic north and grid north will leave England tomorrow (at Berwick-on-Tweed) and won't return for hundreds of years
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kQ...
What happens when the three 'norths' collide?
YouTube video by Ordnance Survey
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A post for map nerds, from @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
The triple alignment between true north, magnetic north and grid north will leave England tomorrow (at Berwick-on-Tweed) and won't return for hundreds of years
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kQ...
The triple alignment between true north, magnetic north and grid north will leave England tomorrow (at Berwick-on-Tweed) and won't return for hundreds of years
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=18kQ...
Acquired a real treasure today (for £7!): a copy of Harriet Martineau's "A Description of the English Lakes", illustrated with original wood-cuts by William J. Linton of Brantwood. (William Linton also illustrated Eliza Lynn Linton's fabulous book "The Lake Country".)
Here's just one of the images:
Here's just one of the images:
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Acquired a real treasure today (for £7!): a copy of Harriet Martineau's "A Description of the English Lakes", illustrated with original wood-cuts by William J. Linton of Brantwood. (William Linton also illustrated Eliza Lynn Linton's fabulous book "The Lake Country".)
Here's just one of the images:
Here's just one of the images:
This is ace!
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is ace!
Great fun for big (as well as little) kids tonight on the yellow brick road @tbtlake.bsky.social Keswick. Special shout out for Vinnie Monachello's Toto: "bark bark" has surely never been as expressive ...
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Great fun for big (as well as little) kids tonight on the yellow brick road @tbtlake.bsky.social Keswick. Special shout out for Vinnie Monachello's Toto: "bark bark" has surely never been as expressive ...
Today in London, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social:
Picasso exhibition at Halcyon Gallery and pre-Christmas lunch with sister and nieces
Picasso exhibition at Halcyon Gallery and pre-Christmas lunch with sister and nieces
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Today in London, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social:
Picasso exhibition at Halcyon Gallery and pre-Christmas lunch with sister and nieces
Picasso exhibition at Halcyon Gallery and pre-Christmas lunch with sister and nieces
Yesterday in London, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social:
Banksy exhibition and Christmas lights in Regent Street & Russell Square
Banksy exhibition and Christmas lights in Regent Street & Russell Square
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Yesterday in London, with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social:
Banksy exhibition and Christmas lights in Regent Street & Russell Square
Banksy exhibition and Christmas lights in Regent Street & Russell Square
10.5 hiking miles for me this week. Today's outing - a Sale Fell circuit with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - may well be my last fell walk of the year: my (second) total knee replacement happens on 13 December. Hope to get a few more gentle miles in before then. #LakeDistrict #NHS1000miles
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
10.5 hiking miles for me this week. Today's outing - a Sale Fell circuit with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - may well be my last fell walk of the year: my (second) total knee replacement happens on 13 December. Hope to get a few more gentle miles in before then. #LakeDistrict #NHS1000miles
Creative afternoon being tutored by the head gardener -Ken Swift - at the Lingholm Estate in the art of festive wreath-making. All materials, except the spices, were from the Estate gardens & we were based in the original (1871) greenhouse
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Creative afternoon being tutored by the head gardener -Ken Swift - at the Lingholm Estate in the art of festive wreath-making. All materials, except the spices, were from the Estate gardens & we were based in the original (1871) greenhouse
Excellent news!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Roanhead holiday resort refused over impact on wildlife
Campaigners celebrate as councillors turn down the plans for the park near Askam.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Excellent news!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's 30.5 boots-on hiking miles for me since I last posted for #nhs1000miles
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's 30.5 boots-on hiking miles for me since I last posted for #nhs1000miles
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Here are a few more pics from this week's snow in the #LakeDistrict (Tewet Tarn x2, view towards Clough Head & the Dodds, Castlerigg Stone Circle)
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Interesting Utopian idea (although read the comments too)
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Interesting Utopian idea (although read the comments too)
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reposted by Sue Wilkinson
Another literary pilgrimage today: below Blencathra, past Tewet Tarn, over Low Rigg & into St John's in the Vale - where 19th Century stonemason, schoolmaster & dialect poet John Richardson lived & is buried (in the graveyard of the church he built)
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Another literary pilgrimage today: below Blencathra, past Tewet Tarn, over Low Rigg & into St John's in the Vale - where 19th Century stonemason, schoolmaster & dialect poet John Richardson lived & is buried (in the graveyard of the church he built)
Minus 4 degrees at Castlerigg stone circle this morning - and we had it to ourselves. (That's @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Minus 4 degrees at Castlerigg stone circle this morning - and we had it to ourselves. (That's @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
in the red jacket.) Another fabulous snow day in the #LakeDistrict
Little vid of snow-covered Blencathra and Skiddaw from Low Brandelhow this morning (+ some bonus geese under the trees) #LakeDistrict
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Little vid of snow-covered Blencathra and Skiddaw from Low Brandelhow this morning (+ some bonus geese under the trees) #LakeDistrict