Jamie will be sorely missed this weekend at @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social, but it also provides an opportunity for us to remember him. Please chip in what you are able, and share this appeal as widely as you can. It would mean so much. #TeamJamie

Bea has come up with a way to honour Jamie which will do lasting good. Please visit her Just Giving page for @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social & @pancreaticcanuk.bsky.social, supporting the wildlife he loved, & fighting the bastard disease that stole him from us.
www.justgiving.com/team/teamjam...

Jamie was part of an extraordinary partnership. In his wife Bea he had not only a soulmate but an equal in spirit, intellect and personality. It’s hard to imagine two people who so thoroughly deserved the good fortune of meeting and marrying one another.

In the end he was taken brutally fast. And yet he remains undiminished. At his funeral, hearing him described in the words of friends, family, colleagues, & those he’d inspired, he became larger than life. I wondered how the did all that, but it was simply by being wholly himself.

In person, Jamie was as you might expect from his social media—curious, kind, irreverent, passionate… but also swearier, scattier, wiser and even funnier.

This time last year he told few of us he was seriously ill, but also that he was ‘undiminished’ & set on ‘wrestling the beast to the ground’.

So kind Susannah, thank you ☺️

Very good news from the Darent… (etymological sister oak-river to the Derwents and the Dart)

Ha! He wouldn’t dare 😁

Oh that’s an early edition… Nick Hayes’ artwork looking very fine! so glad you enjoyed Joe, thank you 🙏

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

I know the booking link looks like it’s for Norwich but click through and you’ll see the York showing is there.

The film follows the activist swimmers of the Bristol Avon, campaigning for their right to swim and the right of their river to flow free and clean. An utter joy, for swimmers and non swimmers alike. Please share with your York area pals. 👆🏻🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...