Four from Raven Crag this afternoon #LakeDistrict
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social

22.5 hiking miles, including 6 Wainwrights, for me this week. Here are 4 more pics from the fab Greenburn Round - with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social - on Tuesday.
#LakeDistrict #nhs1000miles

#162: The Grasmere Dialect Plays ...in which we visit springtime Allan Bank to explore the forgotten phenomena of the Grasmere dialect plays – celebrations of Westmorland dialect and life that put Lakeland on the national cultural ma...

Exciting news! Our podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here:
www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/...

@countrystride.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @inspiredbylakeland.bsky.social

#162: The Grasmere Dialect Plays ...in which we visit springtime Allan Bank to explore the forgotten phenomena of the Grasmere dialect plays – celebrations of Westmorland dialect and life that put Lakeland on the national cultural ma...

.@grasdialectplays.bsky.social
Exciting news! Our Countrystride podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here:
www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/...

@countrystride.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @inspiredbylakeland.bsky.social

My first post-surgery 'round': 4 Wainwrights today on the 8-mile Greenburn Round above Grasmere. Sunny beginning, increasing wind, driving rain for most of the descent. Loved it! So happy to be properly back on the fells #LakeDistrict

Lovely up on Fleetwith Pike this morning (though had to clear litter, scatter firepits, and carry down seven abandoned water bottles ...) #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

A good walking week, despite very mixed weather.
26 boots-on hiking miles, including 5 Wainwright fells.
#nhs1000miles #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Snow-capped Skiddaw, with field of ewes and lambs in foreground

Snow-capped Grisedale Pike, with trees in mid-distance and ewe and lamb in field in foreground

Fresh snow on the tops and newborn lambs in the fields this morning. Very windy in the northern #LakeDistrict

Sue scrambling up a rocky slope on Catbells, Derwentwater beyond

Sue at the rocky summit of Catbells, Derwentwater behind

Early start to beat the holiday hordes on Catbells, on another blue sky day in the #LakeDistrict - pretty windy though. First bit of scrambling for new knee (worked OK!) and 18th Wainwright summit since surgery 12 weeks ago
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Quick ascent of Castle Crag this morning with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social, ahead of the coming storm #LakeDistrict

Along the High Rigg ridge this morning, and back through St John's in the Vale. Daffs looking good at church - and stopped to pay our respects to John Richardson #LakeDistrict #dialectpoet @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Small figure overlooking Crummock Water, from descent of Rannerdale Knotts

Small figure on ridge, on descent to Troutbeck from Wansfell

View towards Derwentwater from summit of Castle Crag. Conifers in foreground, a misty Skiddaw range beyond the lake

This week's total towards #nhs1000miles: 22 hiking miles, including 4 Wainwrights. Not bad for a 12-week-old knee! #LakeDistrict @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Sue standing on rocky summit of Wansfell - Windermere below to the left

Sue descending towards Troutbeck

Sue headed towards the Mortal Man pub in Troutbeck, daffodils in the foreground

Gorgeous day in the #LakeDistrict - perfect for testing out my new knee over 8 miles & nearly 600 metres ascent/descent. (She did well - might just have been headed for a liquid reward in pic 3) Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pics

Sue striding out across a gold & brown Whinlatter Fell, blue sky & white clouds above

Grabbed the weather window today, for a (sunny + windy) bimble up on Whinlatter with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social. Pouring with rain in the #LakeDistrict now

Sue - in pink - on summit of Barrow. Heather flanks the path in the foreground, and the 'knuckles' of Causey Pike rise up behind.

Sue taking the last few steps up to the rocky summit of Walla Crag. The view behind her is Derwentwater and its islands, looking west.

11 hiking miles this week - making the most of the (limited) weather windows in the #LakeDistrict. Included 2 more small Wainwrights: Barrow and Walla Crag.
YTD 103.5 miles - a little under half of what's needed to be on target for #nhs1000miles - but not too bad with an 11-week-old new knee!

Court of Appeal - Civil Division - Court 63

If you missed the hearing as it was happening, you can watch it now on the court's own YouTube channel here. It's "Re Gardner (Deceased)"

www.youtube.com/channel/UCjS...

Image of Teresa Clark & Jenny Kitzinger in front of their opening PowerPoint slide

A pleasure today to share the stage with
@clark345.bsky.social from @rhnuk.bsky.social
- bringing our research into dialogue - to address catastrophic brain injury and “ethics, philosophy & the Mental Capacity Act”

#ProlongedDisordersofConsciousess

Court of Appeal to decide whether open justice applies to the Court of Protection: Briefing for CA-2025-001953 Re Gardner In this ‘advance briefing’, I will set out the relevant background and a short summary of the arguments of the appellant and the intervenors. I hope this will assist observers to follow the hearing…

*Upcoming Court of Appeal - Weds 25th March 2026**

Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection?

That's what the Court of Appeal will be considering.

openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/03/22/c...

Greenish metal articulated skeleton figure.

greenish metal articulated skeleton figure

#IdesofMarch A bronze Roman larva convivialis 199 BCE-500CE--a type of memento mori displayed at a banquet or feast to remind the revelers of their own mortality.
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co90....
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

The gulf between theory and practice: Open justice in the Court of Appeal By Celia Kitzinger, 24th February 2026 Over the last couple of years, judges have been talking a lot about the importance of open justice and transparency. But when I watched a Court of Appeal case…

New blog post

By @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/24/t...

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).

The Lakeland Dialect Society: The Grasmere Dialect Plays - Theatre by the Lake

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

Little figure in red (me!) crossing a golden tussocky slope towards the brown brackeny summit of Barf. In the further distance is the Ullock Pike ridge (green conifers on lower slopes with purplish heathery rock above), and beyond that the rocky slopes of Skiddaw and Skiddaw Little Man, where patches of snow persist, especially along the edge of the ridge. Blue sky above.

En route from Lord's Seat to Barf today: another gloriously sunny one in the #LakeDistrict
Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the pic!

Great to be celebrating Lakeland icon Beatrix Potter on International Women's Day!

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...)

I'm having one of *those* mornings....

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)

Contested decision-making about life-sustaining treatment for adults after catastrophic brain injury

Free lecture (on line and in person)
19 March 2026 17:45 to 19:30

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Sue (in blue): a small figure descending an icy ridge on Great Mell Fell. Two more lines of hills visible behind her, under a grey sky - the further hills still have patches of snow

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)