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🐋Cpeterkessler

@cpeterkessler.bsky.social
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Canals waterside layabout, 🛶 Paddlesports instructor, desert camel meanderer

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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lower Wreyland, near Lustleigh, is an enchanting medieval hamlet
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The West Highland Way trail to Bridge of Orchy from Tyndrum was the easiest so far, and made more pleasant by the brilliant sunshine
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ups & downs along the West Highland Way but we smashed the halfway mark and dried-out overnight in Tyndrum WHW
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I've given Loch Lomond the shove on Day 3 of the West Highland Way as we overnight at Inverarnan
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Exploring along the West Highland Way, Buchanan Castle, Drymen Scotland
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Busy day in North Norfolk removing a shed door, strengthening Jewson's replacement door, hanging, & fitting the ironmongery. Painting to follow www.twowaysnorfolk.co.uk
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On our way home from Edinburgh' Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social Our top picks: "Only Fans for Therapy" "Boiler Room 6" "Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens Have Landed" "How to Poop in an Outhouse" "The Pitch" "This is Not America" "Majenin"
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@rupertgeorge.bsky.social Thesr Nitrous Oxide canisters have been littering Bunson Street since Thursday night. Would you please arrange for THEOs to patrol this area? Grateful also for more assiduous street cleaning in this NO-prone street 🙏
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hey @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social These Nitrous Oxide containers have been littering Bunson Street since Thursday night. Please ask #THEOs & street cleaning teams to visit this locality
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A tortoise resting along London's Limehouse Cut which I met while clearing litter like tyres, a dollhouse, & a toy mower with East London Canal Action Network
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A gentle paddle up the River Lee Navigation to the bubble barrier by Walthamstow Crossover Bridge
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Beautiful Bow, scenes along east London's Hertford Union Canal
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A nice morning collecting litter around the River Lea's Olympic Loop just above the historic point where Queen Matilda reportedly fell into the water, giving Henry I cause to erect a bow-shaped bridge giving the area its name
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A day with ELCAN on canals collecting rubbish from the River Lea and Limehouse Cut by Bow Locks. Tyres, signs, loads of recyclables. The UK urgently needs a bottle & can return law to help reduce litter @thames21.bsky.social @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The Canal & River Trust maintains Britain's historic waterways and towpaths, but signage gets graffitied. I volunteer by water clearing tags and collecting litter @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A bit of canal-side tidying-up around Old Ford lock 19, Lee Navigation, including towpath litter collection. Glad to have somewhat cooler temps
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I saw a great sign today along Zealand Road, Bow:
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Collected about 30 bags of litter today along the Limehouse Cut with new friends from Flutter Entertainment and East London Canal Action Network (ELCAN).
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Migrants bring net economic benefits to wealthy countries, contrary to beliefs espoused by anti-migration groups, @clubdemadrid.bsky.social reports study by Carlos Alvarado-Quesada @ Katrina Burgess @fletcherschool.bsky.social
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Paul Revere's home, the Old North Church, and discussion points on the state of the USA's democracy
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I already voted in England's local elections
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Volunteering with the Canal River Trust along Britain's waterways is a constant effort to remove graffiti from signage and ensure towpath litter is removed
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
St Cuthbert's Way along from Melrose to Harestanes through the beautiful Scottish Borders
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The gall. JD Vance Accuses EU of Meddling in Hungarian Election: "Will you stand against the bureaucrats in Brussels? Will you stand for western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, truth, and the God of our fathers? Then, my friends, go to the polls and stand for Viktor Orban!"
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The African continent dominates @ourworldindata.org stats on people living in extreme poverty. Non-cooperation with the World Bank, and war, means Eritrea and Sudan are not listed. Clearly wealthy donor states and their own leaders must do more
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
North Walsham and Dilham Canal lock at Dilham, a lovely circular walk from Dilham church
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Exploring Fernkloof Nature Reserve at the start of our Hermanus Camino, pure heaven on South Africa's 🇿🇦 amazing Whale Coast ♥️
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A walk in Riverside Park along the River Itchen as sun sets behind Cobden Bridge
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Graffiti at the Old Ford 19 stables along east London's River Lee Navigation got cleaned-off, a labourious process involving the application of paint softener & ThermaTech sprayer #VolunteerByWater cleanupbritain.bsky.social
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My grandfather Col. Howard Starr coached @colgate.edu to a championship and many wins. The ice hockey rink that bears his name is now a temporary b'ball court
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A pass by beautiful Lake Pleasant, in New York's Adirondack State Park
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
International arrivals at the gateway to the capital of the richest country in the world, #Dulles Airport #IAD
Drab arrivals hall.
Low ceiling, dull brown/grey paint.
Tired Dulles International Airport
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Productive 4km kayak water Womble clearing all manner of litter from Regents & Hertford Union canals
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
4km kayak water Womble clearing all manner of litter from Regents & Hertford Union canals
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
London's Olympic Loop is a fab paddle boarding circuit any time of year but the autumn colours were unbeatable today
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Paddle boarding along east London's Hertford Union Canal today. Tower Hamlets is fortunate to have so many historic docks and waterways l
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
A grey heron keeps watch at east London's Old Ford 19 lock along the Lee Navigation
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Congratulations Maria Corina Machado for being named Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2026! A great achievement for Venezuela #Nobel
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Paddle boarding #SUP down the Regent's Canal to Limehouse Basin - formerly Regent's Canal Dock - and up the Cut to the Lee Navigation. Discovered the middle pound of the Hertford Union Canal drained
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Kudos to @chicago.suntimes.com photographers & editor Ashlee Rezin for impressive coverage of resistance to militarised behaviour of masked officers
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Another belated #BigPaddleCleanUp below Lock 8 along the Regents Canal & Hertford Union today.🙏
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Opening tonight in Three Rooms, Walthamstow, Usaydh Agha, Irina Prentice, & Kate Brooks "Reality Check" exhibition of paintings, sculpture, & photography
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A belated #BigPaddleCleanup with @paddleuk.bsky.social along the Hertford Union and Regents canals
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A brilliant day out from Southend-on-Sea on the world's only surviving ocean-going paddle steamer, the Waverley, paddling up the River Thames, passing Gravesend, and under Tower Bridge
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The clipper Stad Amsterdam leaving London's Docklands this evening
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The only fisher permitted within 25 meters of a canal lock are creatures like this Blue Heron, deep within the Limehouse Basin lock onto the Thames
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Serene Horsey beach, North Norfolk with a few curious seals from the nearby rookery. A lovely evening walk before an evening in the Nelson Head pub
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Fascinating visit to the Falkirk Wheel, which replaces 11 locks and saves thousands of tons of water daily
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A Lime hawk moth, I suspect, on a visit to London
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🐋Cpeterkessler @cpeterkessler.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
King Henry's Stairs in London's Wapping district mark the spot where many were executed by hanging. Their bodies were by law left to hang through three tides to ensure stories of their grisly end spread throughout the realm.
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