@kitzingercelia
Promoting #OpenJustice in the Court of Protection #NotSecretCourt Check out our website: openjusticecourtofprotection.org Also all things Lake District + Cumbria including hiking, literature, & other stuff that interests me!
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
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)
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
Sue part-way over a stile (leaning forward with left leg extended behind her), on the wooded hillside of Great Mell Fell
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)
Sandwiches while sheltering from 25-mph gusts of freezing wind! Cold but wonderful views on an exhilarating walk today.
Sue in turquoise jacket on top of Sale Fell, snowy peaks of Skiddaw range in the background
Sue on a rocky ridge looking out over Bassenthwaite Lake, to Ullock Pike and a snowy Skiddaw range on the other side
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
It's a year since my extraordinary daughter died unexpectedly. Re-sharing her obituary because it matters so much that the world understands who children w/ SEND actually are - especially right now when their right to the support they need in education is at risk. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Well, just had to get up above the snowline today: Little Mell Fell. Thanks to @kitzingercelia.bsky.social for the video
#LakeDistrict
A Welsh white leopard? Litigation capacity in the absence of subject-matter capacity revisited
Whether you can have capacity to conduct proceedings about a decision you lack capacity to make is a question that infrequently, but consistently, troubles the Court of Protection. Mostyn J once…
Attorneys, failures to consult and consequences
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board v RW & Anor EWCOP 10 (T3) provides a snapshot of the realities of navigating health and welfare decision-making of a kind that rarely makes it to court. In short compass, it concerns a failure by a hospital…
Looking towards a snowy Blencathra, with - in the foreground - a snowy field to the left and a snow-capped fence to the right (taken early afternoon today)
Looking towards a snowy Skiddaw, with - in the foreground - a green field, backed by a row of trees (taken late afternoon today)
Cool and warm: Blencathra early afternoon and Skiddaw late afternoon today #LakeDistrict
New blog post
Daughter of P (@AmandaAPHill.bsky.social) wins right to refer to Court of Protection proceedings naming her mother without having to make a further application after her mother's death.
It shouldn't have been so hard!
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/12/h...
And me too!
Small figure with hiking poles descending a rocky slope through the cloud near the summit of Binsey
Sue in wet weather gear at the trig point on the summit of Binsey - no views because of low cloud
Sue at the memorial to Quintin McKinnon on the McKinnon Pass - the highest point of the Milford Track (New Zealand). Bright blue sky behind (and one small patch of cloud)
Blue sky view of the McKinnon Pass, Milford Track, New Zealand. Vegetated foreground; small tarn in middle distance, with McKinnon memorial to the left of it; rocky peaks behind
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
“Contested Decision-making about Life-sustaining Treatment for adults after catastrophic brain injury”
Public lecture @ox.ac.uk by Prof Lynne Turner-Stokes. 19th March, 5.45pm
Further info + Register to get online link, or to reserve a seat in person:
www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Great progress in week 4 of new knee! 10.5 hiking miles, and back on the fells. Began a new round of post-surgery Wainwrights (with @kitzingercelia.bsky.social). Summited #Latrigg on Wed and #Ling today. So happy! #nhs1000miles
Sue triumphant at the top of Latrigg: holding crossed hiking poles aloft. A moody sky, with views of Derwentwater and Catbells beyond
Sue walking on Latrigg, with late afternoon sun slanting behind her, across Derwentwater to Catbells, and beyond into Newlands Valley
Day 25 post-left-knee replacement - and I'm back on the fells! Yippee! Gorgeous light for my first Wainwright (of Round 4): the mighty Latrigg
New blog post
How do appeals work in the Court of Protection - why do they fail, and how are they different from reconsiderations, or hearings after a material change in circumstance.
By Robert Sharp
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/02/04/a...
progress for reporters on family court proceedings
New blog post by @kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Successful application to disapply Section 12(1) of the Administration of Justice Act: Making Polly’s statutory will application public
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/01/18/s...
Stop referencing fake case citations, judges warned
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/stop-re...
Can we get this one over the line? 10k to go!
