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A walk down memory lane (aka The Strand) this week. It's 19 years since our High Court case seeking legal recognition of our marriage in England & Wales [bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/…] was heard at the Royal Courts of Justice:

Indeed! And our statement to the press - when we came out of court - included the sentence: "This judgment will not stand the test of time".

Sharing Celia Kitzinger's world this week: Royal Courts of Justice, Inns of Court, & First Avenue House - where I attended a Court of Protection hearing (my first)

Atypical #nhs1000miles Sun eve post from me. Just 18 hiking miles in the last fortnight, for a YTD total of 692 miles. Have been catching up with old friends and being a city tourist! Here are some pics of London by night:

51 hiking miles this week, in the stunning Bernese Oberland. Highlight was a 12-miler to the Eiger glaciers (c. 1000 metres up, 1250 metres down) #nhs1000miles ⁦Celia Kitzinger⁩

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And the readings star Jean Scott-Smith (the President of the Lakeland Dialect Society) & John Campbell, with supporting cast Phillip Gage and Louise Green. They're all native dialect speakers and fabulous performers. It will be great fun!

Ecological perspectives in Beatrix Potter's work: a great talk by Dr Penny Bradshaw Higham Hall College this afternoon. Now eagerly awaiting publication of Penny's 'A to Z of Beatrix Potter' (Bloomsbury Press) early next year ... Cumbria Uni English

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Fascinating insight into the history, art & craft of Mark Richards's line drawings The Armitt: Museum, Gallery, Library this morning. Here he is with a diagram from the 'Borrowdale' volume of his Fellranger Guides (Cicerone). Spot the Wainwright influence! Many thanks Mark for a great talk.

Superb Wainwright exhibition currently on The Armitt: Museum, Gallery, Library, Ambleside. Congrats to Alfred Wainwright Books & Memorabilia on putting this together to mark the 70th anniversary of the first Pictorial Guide. Don't miss it!

Unexpected literary - and gastronomic - tourism passing through the Gloucestershire village of Slad, where Laurie Lee spent much of his life. 1st pic is the memorial window in the church, the food is at his local, The Woolpack

A day of contrasts on the Somerset/North Devon border: damselflies on the river Exe; a visiting Shropshire Morris troupe; Lynmouth harbour; and Exmoor ponies in the evening light, with deer behind