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Ange Harker 🦻🦇🤘🥾
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📕'Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West' publ. Cicerone - out 30th Sept '25! Farm-raised, hearing-aid wearing, neurodivergent, #RuralWritingInstitute & #OpenMountain alumni, likes the dark side. She/her. Lakes/Dales/Nidderdale
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25% off selected pre-orders at @waterstones.bsky.social till Thursday - inc. #WalkingTheKCIIIECPNorthWest & 2 other #Cicerone guides for the #PeakDistrict by @andrewmccloy.bsky.social & South #Devon by #HollyScrivener!

Use code SUMMER25 by end of Thursday: linktr.ee/ange_harker

#WPreorder
Waterstones graphic showing special offer details and the covers of the three books.
July 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Pleased to announce that all pre-orders of my #Cicerone Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West guidebook from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social will be signed!! ✍️

You can find the Sam Read website via linktr.ee/ange_harker & at www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/pre-...

#KCIIIECP
Photo of Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere A wide beach shot with low waves trickling across the sand towards dunes and distant buildings A group of people walk along a wooded and grassed clifftop path above golden sands Cover of the guidebook
July 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Cripes, that’s a bit bigger than my local repository #IltonCumPott #ShortlickWell
Map section showing Ilton-Cum-Pott parish (and the nearby Shortlick Well and Shortlick Hill)
May 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I thought I’d posted the video yesterday!🤦‍♀️

#Frogs #Whernside #YorkshireDales
April 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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FROGGOS!

At least 70, near top of #Whernside, @yorkshiredales.org.uk
Video of a high moorland pond with lots of little frog heads poking out and ribbiting away! View of the pond just over a fence with the summit of the hill behind.
April 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Brilliant to be back in the big #fells yesterday - it’s been a while & not sure how long it’s gonna take to recover but the #VitaminD top-up is pulling me through for the moment! (That and chips.)

#Langdale #EskPike #Bowfell #LakeDistrict #Wainwrights
View up a footpath to some knobbly mountains A drystone shelter cross (literally 4 drystone walls in the shape of a cross creating sheltered rest areas for walkers in the four quarters) is nestled near the bottom of Esk Hause, a dip between mountains. Two legs from the knees downwards with trousers rolled up like shorts, standing in a small patch of remnant snow. View across slanted rock outcrops in the foreground to Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain, in the distance.
March 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Glorious day and already T-shirt #weather above #Cartmel!
View of a countryside lane heading towards forested hillside under a clear blue sky. Selfie of a white 40-something woman with dark hair and black sunglasses in a black T-shirt.
March 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Don’t worry #Lesotho, we’re not all ignorant. Pics from Sept 2022, on a three-day trek with amazing local hospitality and guides; in the arid season between winter snows and summer greens.
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Three walkers head down a mountain slope. A white post in the foreground - very high up the hillside - marks the planned level of a new foreign-run super-reservoir which will completely cut off all the fabulous communities who hosted us. Two other guests and out local guide inspect lines of aloe amidst the arid ground, towering above our heads at at least 7 feet tall. A cluster of yellow mountain flowers cling to the red bedrock Walkers on a stream side path with a handful of small trees along it, in a valley between mountains.
March 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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On the flip side, hello and fucking hell to this view of the relentlessly handsome #Dentdale 😍
View from a moorland path down the lush green valley of Dentdale with more hills beyond.
March 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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And a big “FUCKING HELL!!!” to this lovely gentleman too — who might wish to consider, when hurtling down a hill at full speed yelling blue murder, despite a walker in full view, that deaf people are — would you believe it — actually allowed to go for walks too.
A cyclist in a red coat on the skyline of a moorland track.
March 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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It’s #Ingleton #Pantomime weekend! Finally saw it in full last night after catching snippets at rehearsal: congrats to the whole team on a fabulous show 🎉

Pics are from last night, dress rehearsal & a peek at the making of Hetty and Willie’s cakes, which was an absolute joy!

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The community centre hall is filling up with people. Some of the cake decorations in progress - fabric strawberries, pretend piped icing and a large crocheted candle. Two badly cut foam blocks painted white form a terribly made wonky cake. The evil witch Gothel is on stage wearing a purple velvet dress and cool dark shades with a crew of dancing demons behind her (oh yes they are).
February 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Two of the very best Places keeping each other company in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social shop - and a #TimBird on view from the door! 🌊

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A Flat Place by Noreen Masud sits next to The Place of Tides by James Rebanks on a bookshop bookshelf. Adrift on a Painted Sea, a graphic novel by Tim Bird, sits propped and forward-facing on a shelf alongside other books.
February 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I was just as nice to a baby ladybird called Joanna.
Page from another ‘book’ created age 6. In this one the text says ‘It had two spots. It lived in a rotten potatoe’ - as illustrated in a felt pen drawing in which (a somewhat long-legged) poor Joanna sits alone in a completely blackened hollow in the aforementioned ‘rotten potatoe’.
February 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Cracking flashback to some of my earliest and most brutal #NatureWriting upon finding these smashed-up snails today. #PoorLisa
Photo of many smashed snail shells around an exposed rock on the ground. Cover of a ‘book’ called Lisa and the Thrush, by me, aged 6. Child’s writing, below a drawing of Lisa the snail and a thrush flying overhead, says ‘Down flew a thrush. Lisa tucked her self in but the thrush picked Lisa up. Below a drawing of the bird with the snail in its beak, the words ‘The thrush took Lisa to the fancy stone that he found near his home. He banged Lisa on the stone. Poor Lisa. Then the thrush gobbled Lisa up.’
February 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Dear reader, I went to #Almanby 🍦
Photo of a paperback copy of Lost in the Garden, a novel by Adam S. Leslie.
February 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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COVER REVEAL 🎉

Been a long time in the making but thank you #CiceronePress for commissioning me back in 2018 to write a guide to the brand new #KingCharlesIIIEnglandCoastPath in the north west: 367 miles from Scotland to Wales.

It's out on 30th September and you can pre-order now! ☺️
Cover of a walking guidebook named 'Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West', featuring a photo of the Duddon Estuary's sands, a houseboat on the shore, and the Lake District mountains in the distance, under fluffy clouds in a blue sky. A group of walkers head along a footpath in a clifftop meadow on Walney Island in Cumbria, under a blue sky, with sea to the left and the large dome of Black Combe hill up ahead.
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Being paid to go to the seaside once in a while is great but sometimes I get to go on the #SettleCarlisle line from #Ribblehead to #Carlisle for meetings.
Looking down a gravel access track to a couple of lone buildings and cloud-topped hills beyond. A wild open hilly landscape as seen from the station Passing the remote Blea Moor signal box View down Dentdale from the train window
February 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Really enjoyed meeting loads of other #Cicerone authors & publishing team this weekend - more news on my contribution to the portfolio soon but in the meantime was supercool to be able to present a little about how we use #GIS software at #NaturalEngland to create the #EnglandCoastPath #KCIIIECP 😊
A PowerPoint slide is projected onto a screen with a photo of the Brecon Beacons mountains and the caption Cicerone Author Day 2025. Four people walking on a path up a Lake District hillside ahead. There are dark clouds beyond but the sun is shining on the scene. A group of walkers descends a path between bare winter trees. There are mountains beyond and the sun is shining. A book celebrating Cicerone’s 50 year history and a glass of red wine sit on a coffee table with a green, purple and white crocheted mat.
February 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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A little teaser of that thing that took over most of my 2024.
#Cicerone #BeenWriting
Photo of a projected PowerPoint slide with a picture of the Brecon Beacons mountains and the caption ‘Cicerone Author Day 2025’
February 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Well that was a nice surprise after dumping some rotting potato bits in the ground last Christmas then abandoning the garden for a whole year.
A good few meals’ worth of freshly dug potatoes
January 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In #Blackpool & #Cleveleys area for work. It is grey and damp but there’s a #dog in a pram on the tram.
A grey day on Cleveleys promenade with beach on the left and a round shelter on the right. A small grey dog peers out of a small grey dog pram
January 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Done a lot of sleeping this last week so was glad to have recovered enough energy to play out again this weekend - a long (but joyful) slog up Pen-y-Ghent yesterday & a little stroll on Twisleton Scar today.
A dark, ominous sky looms beyond a totally snow-covered landscape as seen from high on the slopes of Pen-y-Ghent, with the flat-topped peak of Ingleborough in the far distance. A lane filled with snowdrifts leads down into the valley as dusk falls, the landscape is once more completely snow-covered apart from a few stands of trees to the left and a couple of dry stone walls to the right. Looking down onto a snowy lane winding through the landscape. The scene is mostly snow-covered but beginning to thaw, especially on the slopes across the valley ahead. Photo taken in same direction as the last, but from a higher vantage point with outcrops of limestone pavement and windswept trees in the foreground on Twisleton Scar
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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So happy to be free to play in the snow today that I didn’t even mind the sandblasting spindrift on the return leg… well, not much… #HoffmanLimeKiln, Stainforth, Winskill & Langcliffe.
The inside of a Hoffman lime kiln - a large, dark, arched tunnel with a series of openings on the left hand wall shining daylight across patches of windblown snow A wooded cliff appears almost monochrome between a white snowy field and a white snow-laden sky A Narnia-esque snowy woodland with mostly buried steps rising through the trees Another snowy scene, this time mistier in the slush-drizzle, looking down a fenceline above the cliff to a patchwork of white fields in the dale below
January 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Had a much-needed sunny break from the current Big Project walking from #HelwithBridge to #Horton-in-Ribblesdale & back around the quarry & moss - stunning barn owl encounters on the moss & a wander up to the quarry viewpoint just before last light. @yorkshiredalesnp.bsky.social
The distant hill of Pen-y-Ghentseen over a wide bend in a river reflecting the clear blue sky Walking through riverside trees with the winter sun filtering through. Angular patterns in the ground ice The view from a high-up viewpoint into a very deep slate quarry, showing terraced layers of rock and some very tiny-looking diggers on one of the upper levels. The hill above catches the orange glow of the day’s last light.
January 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Thank you @likewinterblue.bsky.social / @samreadbookseller.bsky.social for #ConnectionIsASong by @annadoble.bsky.social - such Harrogate-based indie nostalgia… and Nidderdale legend Biddy Noakes 💪
Black and yellow cover of The book Connection is a Song by Anna Doble. Extract from the book describing the author’s art teacher Biddy Noakes as like a dame, with a punky fringe, black plimsolls and always with barley sugars on school trips, given to the girls first because their blood sugar needs it more.
November 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM