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campaignerkate.bsky.social
Campaigner, loves walking, landscapes, birds, archaeology, wild country. Own views. General secretary Open Spaces Society, vice-president Ramblers, vice-chair Campaign for National Parks & Dartmoor Preservation Association, patron Walkers are Welcome towns
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Sad to report our delivery of local milk has ended campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/e... @chilternsnl.bsky.social

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Walk on the Saxon shore with good bird-sightings campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/o... @kentwildlife.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social

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Lovely walk today with the Radical Ramblers, Faversham-Whitstable on Saxon Shore Way beside South Elmley NR. Great birds, eg avocet, curlew, barn owl, marsh harrier, redshank, turnstone. @ramblersgb.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

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Home. And the common good.

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The amazing Seth Lakeman will be headlining the first Dartmoor Tors Festival - along with many others including @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social Garry Fabian Miller and many more. Tix on sale Saturday shorturl.at/myHJ3

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Great exhibition @rammuseum.bsky.social of Dartmoor's radical landscape @dpadartmoor.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/o...

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Atmospheric walk yest over Besbury, Minchinhampton & Rodborough commons, Glos, with Chris Short CCRI. @doug-81.bsky.social @annfin.bsky.social

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Great work for butterflies at Common Wood, by @dpadartmoor.bsky.social and @plymuni.bsky.social volunteers @savebutterflies.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/w...

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Rachel Reeves, don't bulldoze Labour's greatest legacy 🛑 @teamlabouruk.bsky.social forebears recognised the importance of protecting England’s iconic landscapes for working people. Gov must comply with the law, we will hold you to account for the sake of the environment inews.co.uk/news/tunnel-...

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Nice trip with Bucks Bird Club campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/g...

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How my friend, the late Sylvia Sayer, spent her 70th birthday campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/s...

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I am pleased that @theguardian.com has published my letter about Richard Webb, formerly of Webb & Bower publishers, who saved Sugary Green, Dartmouth, by registering it as a town green @openspacessociety.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Wooden gates have replaced stiles on River Coln Trail @cotswoldsnl.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/i...

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We have welcomed a tribunal decision that HMRC must reveal more information about country estates benefiting from inheritance tax relief. (1/2)

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England Coast Path, named after the king, should go through the king's great-great-great grandmother's Osborne estate, next to the sea campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/c... @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social

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Good to see N Yorks CC welcoming the government's promise to repeal path guillotine @ltcravenherald.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/2486408...

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A wonderful opportunity!

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This is tragic, less than 4 weeks after we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the National Parks & Access to Countryside Act 1949. Come on government, you mustn't allow our protected landscapes to be so weakened.

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Admiring this frosty view from Cobstone Hill above Turville this evening when a beautiful barn owl flew below me @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @chilternsnl.bsky.social

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Remembering David Bradnack, former secretary of @ramblers.org.uk Bucks, Milton Keynes and West Middlesex Area campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/d...

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Pleased that my additional tribute to Andrew Bennett, former MP for Denton & Reddish & @ramblersgb.bsky.social champion published in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202... @openspacessociety.bsky.social

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Walk in West Sussex taking in impressive Ouse Viaduct campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/v... @ramblers.org.uk

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My friend Sylvia Sayer, who taught me so much about campaigning and who defended Dartmoor for more than 50 years, died 25 years ago today, still greatly missed @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social

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I had a great bird year in 2024, @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @neildm63.bsky.social ttps://campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/my-bird-year-2024/

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Delighted to be on @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today this morning on gvt's brilliant pledge to repeal 2031 cut-off for claiming paths, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 54 mins @ramblers.org.uk

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Remembering Andrew Bennett, brilliant parliamentarian who campaigned relentlessly for rights of way & access @ramblersgb.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2024/12/26/t...

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I'm so lucky to live in @chilternsnl.bsky.social Here's Cobstone Hill this morning.

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Obit of Colin Murison Small, pioneer of chalet and villa package holidays campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/o...

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New National Park in NE Wales gets support from @openspacessociety.bsky.social www.ukhillwalking.com/news/2024/12... @ukhillwalking.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social

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’Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the dayes' (John Donne) - at sunset on the shortest day here are a raven and a red kite in Kimble Wood in the @chilternsnl.bsky.social

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I can't believe it's now 50 years since I finished writing this story and posted it to the Sayer family for christmas 1974 @dpadartmoor.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/t...

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Fab to be @ramblers.org.uk parliamentary event to celebrate 75th anniv of #NationalParks & Access to the Countryside Act 1949 with my friends Owen Plunkett (on his 90th birthday, shared with the Act) & Maxwell Ayamba

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75 years ago today history was made 🎉 The #NationalParks & Access to the Countryside Act came into force, a truly visionary legislation enshrining everyone’s ability to access nature in law 📜 Today we celebrate their past & fight for their future 🙌 www.cnp.org.uk/our-national...

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@ramblers.org.uk @campaign4parks.bsky.social

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Happy birthday to Owen Plunkett, campaigner for @southdownsnp.bsky.social and access campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/o... @vanessarowlands.bsky.social

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