Celia Kitzinger

Waiting at the finish line for Sue to finish the Two Peaks at the @kmf2026 - a fabulous achievement only just over 4 months after a (second) total knee replacement! Go Sue!

Britain’s oldest paths were never designed by planners or engineers. They were shaped slowly, over centuries, by human movement — footsteps repeating the same journeys until they became part of the landscape itself. Ridgeways, hollow ways, pilgrimage trails, coffin roads — an “internet of feet” connecting generations long before maps or motorways existed. There’s something quietly powerful about walking these ancient routes today. The land remembers where people have been. theguardian.com/travel/2026/ma…

@MDJO @ZoeJames2024 I also put mine on the back of my race bib

@ZoeJames2024 @KitzingerCelia In the opposite direction (for oneself) Advanced decisions (free) are legally binding should one lose capacity. LPOA for health also legally valid but costs c.£80. Put this info as your screen saver in case they start making decisions about you that you never wanted

What I wish I knew before my child turned 18. No one told me that everything could change overnight. No one explained the Court of Protection. No one prepared me for capacity assessments. No one warned me that decisions about my loved one’s life could be taken out of my hands.

But at least I didn't need my Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment! No health issues except for sore feet! @AGoodDeath

And she’s back! Well done @sue_wilkinson

Waiting at the finish line for Sue to finish the Two Peaks at the @kmf2026 - a fabulous achievement only just over 4 months after a (second) total knee replacement! Go Sue!

Know the difference... 😀 Here are 4 similar birds that spend most of their time in the sky, which I've photographed recently. 🐦 1. Swift - All brown, but can appear black against the sky. Short forked tail, long scythe-like wings. 🐦 2. House Martin - All white stomach and throat, appears black on the back, but with blue tinge. short wings, short forked tail. 🐦 3. Swallow - Red throat, white stomach up to a dark band below the throat. Long forked tail with streamers. 🐦 4. Sand Martin. Similar to House Martin but even shorter, slightly forked tail, white stomach with dark chest band and white throat. Brown on the back. 🐦 Other information to help with identification; If your bird is on a wire or post, it's definitely NOT a Swift.😊 (Swifts only land to nest, everything else they do in flight, including eat, drink and sleep!) If your bird is nesting under eaves, it's definitely NOT a Sand Martin.😊 Sand Martins nest in holes in sandy cliffs. If your bird is screeching, it's a Swift. 😊 Next time you go out, look up and see if you can identify these birds. They're all summer visitors to the UK. ♥️

30 hiking miles for #nhs1000miles this week. Thrilled to complete the 2 Peaks Challenge (12 mls, 800m) at #KMF2026 today - just over 4 months since my left knee replacement. (Last done 8 months after my right knee replacement.) Hope to be back on the 8 Peaks Challenge next year!

She made it!

@AGoodDeath It was 20 miles and 8 peaks: Catbells, Maiden Moor, High Spy, Castlehead - then down into Rosthwaite + up to High Tove, High Seat, Bleaberry and Walla. Some views from before the rain set in!

Ready to go! #KMF2026

The Woman Who Broke the Barrier Nobody Noticed. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes. The world lost its mind. Twenty-three days later, a 21-year-old chemistry student named Diane Leather ran a mile in 4:59.6 at the Midland Championships in Birmingham, he first woman ever to break five minutes. The world barely looked up from its newspaper. Leather had only started running two years earlier, inspired by watching the 1952 Olympics on television. She joined the Birchfield Harriers in Birmingham, trained under coach Doris Nelson Neal, and within months became the national cross-country champion. By 1954, she was rewriting what was considered physically possible for women over distance, a feat medical experts of the era openly doubted could be done safely. She didn't stop at one barrier. Leather broke her own record five times, lowering it to 4:45 by the end of 1955, a mark that stood for seven years. But here's the thing: the IAAF refused to officially recognize the women's mile as an event until 1967. Her times were classified as "world bests," not world records. The Olympics didn't even include a women's 1500m until 1972. Leather retired from running at 27, married, moved to Cornwall, and spent decades working in social care. It took until 2013, nearly sixty years, for her to be inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. She died in 2018 at age 85. Bannister got a knighthood. Leather got a footnote. History has a way of losing things in plain sight.

Anorexia, declaratory protection and the Mental Health Act: Ventilating a jurisdictional question following Townsend openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2026/05/12/ano… via @OpenJusticeCoP

Get advice about career development from Macbeth Ask Othello about how to improve your relationships What an interesting idea! thelivinglibrary.app/?twclid=26yrax…

Join MA Programme leader one week today @ArmittMuseum for this talk on ‘Beatrix Potter’s Myriads of Fairy Fungi’. For details and to book see link below 📚🍄🍃🍄‍🟫