Eileen Jones

The Long Spring 2nd edition - Laurence Rose Laurence Rose spent the spring of 2016 travelling from North Africa to the Arctic coast of North Norway. It was a unique exploration of nature, culture and conservation, and the vital sense of place t...

Thanks to #Buxton Field Club and @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social for a great meeting and successful book launch last night! #naturewriting @gritstonebooks.bsky.social laurencerose.co.uk/product/the-...

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@cumbriauk.bsky.social Welcome!!!

Why reading matters if you want to be a writer. You'd think it was common sense, of course, but it needs reinforcing, says Gritstone author Mike Raine gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/why... #writers #reading

Theatre in the Lakes just gets better and better. If you're coming to the world premiere @VictoriaWoodTheatre, book accommodation nearby: www.reallakedistrict.co.uk/blog.aspx#wo... @lakedistrict.bsky.social

Tonight was the private view for my new book tie-in exhibition at The Armitt in Ambleside. ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ features loan items from the major Potter archives and offers new perspectives on this popular children’s author. It opens on Wednesday 18 February and will run until December 🍃📚🍄

Amazingly, Julian Cooper offered me my first solo photography exhibition, at the Archive Gallery in Grasmere in 2019. Apart from being a very thoughtful, imaginative, and accomplished landscape painter, he's also a highly amusing fellow to be around, with a dry wit of the best kind.

The Art of Julian Cooper Theatre by the Lake There’s a show coming to Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake, but it’s not on the stage. It’s an exhibition in their gallery of work by Julian Cooper, consider…

The book, and now an exhibition at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick @tbtlake.bsky.social stageylady.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t... @lakedistrict.bsky.social

What is effective about this Burnham statement is it reads like something that he is personally invested in and is not worried about criticism for. More of this please.

Surely “Resounding vote of confidence for Starmer”? What’s wrong with you at BBC, what’s your agenda?

If only there wasn’t already a Moody Blues….

Eileen Jones - Author of Loughrigg

Talking all things Loughrigg with @gritstonebooks.bsky.social colleague Mike Raine open.spotify.com/episode/6pkp... @lakedistrict.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social

Towards Scafell by Julian Cooper from his stunning new book; this is art on the grandest scale. For lovers of the Lakes, and mountains everywhere @lakedistrict.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @grasmerewi.bsky.social
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Will be interesting to watch. Interesting also that Farage is mentioned in dispatches but no one’s following that up.

We're celebrating ten years in publishing and now looking to recruit new members to our writers' group.
If you're interested please read this gritstonecoop.co.uk/join-us/ and the feature article below, then any more questions, get in touch via our website.
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At long last @johnofarrell.bsky.social I've got tix for Something Rotten. I'm sure you were due to open in UK in the year of lockdown. This had better be worth waiting for 😉😉

A lovely eclectic list to be part of. Thank you , @waterstones.bsky.social

We used to make em up regularly. I won once with Cliviger: the uncomfortable sensation when wearing a thong which is one size too small and back to front.

Haxby

UK writers' co-op Gritstone to celebrate 10th anniversary Gritstone Publishing, still the only author-run co-operative publisher in Britain, is turning 10 years old in 2026

UK writer-owned publishing co-op Gritstone plans new releases to mark 10th anniversary #coops

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What a wonderful occasion! I’m sure the book will be a great success. In spite of the mycological conundrum 😉😉😉

I hope you had plenty of Double Gloucester ready …

it's January ALL YEAR ROUND at Januaryland. Enjoy the misery of the year's most depressing month any time. Completely enclosed and undercover. Computerised climate control technology ensures cold, great January weather even on the warmest summer day. And state of the art photochromic shutters ensure that it's dark by half past three, While you're there why not...Wait for a bus in the sleet in our authentic Januarytown city centre...Enjoy a warming cup of Lemsip in our famous Capricorn Cafe... Snap up 'bargains' in our Januaryland gift shop, where it's sale time all the time! "I was there for two hours one day last may and I wanted to cut my fucking wrists" Mrs B, Essex

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So happy and proud to see this from my favourite bookshop @fredsbookshop.bsky.social

Managed 51, most of them very slow. But in a dreadful year, parkrun remains the constant, reliable joy.

National parks and young people: Shaping the future Andrew McCloy, Chair of Trustees at Campaign for National Parks reflects on last week’s uplifting Radical Futures event.

Empowering young people to become tomorrow’s leaders is vital for the future of national parks. Read my thoughts here:
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Lark rise in Keswick Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake has announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming co-production of LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD, created in partnership with the award-winning Watermill …

Another groundbreaking production for Keswick's fabulous Theatre by the Lake @tbtlake.bsky.social stageylady.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/l...

We're delighted to welcome our newest member, Mike Raine, author of Nature of Snowdonia, provider of Environmental Training for Mountain Leaders & Mountaineering Instructors. See our website for all our latest books..we can still get to you for Christmas if you order now gritstonecoop.co.uk/shop/

Think I’ve been in this pub (2nd item) more times than any other. Such memories, such great training nights with Clayton le Moors Harriers youtu.be/UIy82CLMuvQ?...