YES - IT'S TONIGHT! Your rare opportunity to see & hear the Grasmere Dialect Plays brought to life!
Wed 11 March, 6.15 in the Studio, @tbtlake.bsky.social Keswick.
A few tickets left: phone the theatre box office on 017687 74411 (or visit the Words By the Water website).
It's tomorrow night! Still (just) time to get your tickets for our readings from the fabulous Grasmere Dialect Plays. theatrebythelake.com/event/the-la...
6.15, The Studio, @tbtlake.bsky.social, Keswick. See you there!
Week 8 for new left knee, and my highest boots-on hiking mileage this year: 18 miles. Pics from this weekend's outings with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social and Keswick Rambling Club. #LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles
En route from Lord's Seat to Barf today: another gloriously sunny one in the #LakeDistrict
Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pic!
Just five days to go! Come and join us @tbtlake.bsky.social Keswick for an incredible story and some brilliant cameo performances. Tickets from: www.theatrebythelake.com/event/the-la...
Blue skies in the #LakeDistrict for the second day running! Climbed up the Ullock Pike ridge to The Watches with Keswick Rambling Club today, then rambled across muddy fields to St Bega's church
In their talk on on 'Age, Generation and "Greenness" in Children’s Picturebooks' - at the University of Cumbria this eve - Sarah Falcus & Katsura Sako made some great connections with well-known Cumbrian gardens & Cumbrian literature on childhood innocence & experience
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Thrilled to see the William Heaton Cooper backcloth - painted in the 1930s for the Grasmere Dialect Plays - at the Grasmere Village Hall this afternoon. (It was 'lost' until 2015, when it was rediscovered rolled up under the stage: www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/1413859...)
Great to be celebrating Lakeland icon Beatrix Potter on International Women's Day!
Thrilled to be involved in this, with my amazing colleagues from the Lakeland Dialect Society ... (If anyone wants a 'sneak preview, come along to @tbtlake.bsky.social on 11th March at 6.15 pm, where we'll be doing an event as part of the fab Words by the Water Keswick Festival
Nice one Mark!
Sun eve check-in for #nhs1000miles. 11 hiking miles, with 2 more Wainwright fells, for me this week (week 7 of new knee). Pics are from my longest/highest hike to date: the Knott Rigg - Ard Crags ridge. #LakeDistrict (Pics by
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social)
The next talk in the Uni of Cumbria's 'Cultural Landscapes' series is Sarah Falcus & Katsura Sako on 'Age, Generation and "Greenness" in Children’s Picturebooks', on Tue 3 March. Further details/bookings (free!): tinyurl.com/y42t4d56 (Image from schoolreadinglist.co.uk)
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Thanks Sarah!
Scenes from a near-perfect day: establishing a Margaret Cropper archive at the Armitt Museum; celebratory coffee & cake in Grasmere; and the first wild daffodils - on a solitary wander in beautiful Easedale #LakeDistrict
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It was wonderful to see this come to fruition today, opening up many more opportunities for Margaret Cropper and her work to become better known. Thanks to her great-nieces for their generous donation to the Armitt Museum, and to Grevel Lindop and @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social for their support
Great pic!
Week 6 of new knee and 13 hiking miles completed towards #nhs1000miles. Two more Wainwright summits: Sale Fell and Great Mell Fell. Pic is of me navigating the remains of the snow and ice on Thursday, as the thaw began to set in. #LakeDistrict
(Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pic)
In Keswick for the 'Words by the Water' Festival?
I'll be introducing members of the Lakeland Dialect Society performing sketches from the amazing Grasmere Dialect Plays. Guaranteed to be both informative and great fun!
11th March, 6.15 in the Studio, Theatre by the Lake @tbtlake.bsky.social
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And for my next trick ...
The operated knee - 40 days old - successfully navigates its first stile today, on Great Mell Fell #LakeDistrict
May not be elegant but definitely functional!
(Think @kitzingercelia.bsky.social might have been impressed)
One of those - rare - blue sky days when it would have been rude not to get out! Sale Fell this morning #LakeDistrict
Pics by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Week 5 of new knee. Doing more on the static bike and started hydrotherapy in the wonderful pool at the Calvert Trust. Only 6.5 hiking miles - which are all I count for #nhs1000miles - but these included 2 Wainwright summits: Binsey (in the rain) and Little Mell Fell (in the snow)
Well, just had to get up above the snowline today: Little Mell Fell. Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the video
#LakeDistrict
Cool and warm: Blencathra early afternoon and Skiddaw late afternoon today #LakeDistrict
And the reward for all that effort was a yummy Indi-Yan dinner at the Yan at Broadrayne (near #Grasmere)
Today: climbed 180m the to top of mighty Binsey (447m) in the rain and cloud, with my hiking buddy @kitzingercelia.bsky.social. #LakeDistrict
OTD a year ago: we climbed 610m to the McKinnon Pass - the highest point (at 1514m) on the Milford Track, in glorious sun. #NewZealand
Did you do - or have you done - the 'angels' tour?
