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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Had a misty shower on the weekend paddle when a departure from Battersea Heliport took off and briefly hovered over us. Everyone stayed upright.. 😂 #kayaking #riverthames #helicopter @lovebattersea.bsky.social #putneybridgecanoeclub

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#Agapanthus time in our London garden. Brought just 2 small rhizomes back from Madeira 30 years ago and left them to it. Tried planting seeds but tbh better to let them grow where they want and move them if that’s not the right place! Always reliable and beautiful.

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Brain teaser. Xochimilco canal, Mexico City. #heron #whichwayisup ?

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

5:30am arrival in Puebla, Mexico. Just as the sun begins the day too. #Mexico #Puebla

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🌞 Back on the water in the sunshine, with a new #greenlandpaddle to try. #kayak #riverthames #london Short brisk trip Putney to Chiswick and back. #seakayaking #putneybridgecanoeclub

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Brilliant colours in the Spring sunshine today from the azaleas, camellias and rhodos. Valley Gardens, Windsor Great Park.

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

But still not working well in the UK I’m afraid on the search (maybe it’s just what everyone else is searching for) #totp #ddos #friday

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Tonight's last gig in Leeds by #TheUkrainians band on their farewell tour - caught them Friday @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social Since @glastonbury.bsky.social in '92, & all the music before & since, thanks Peter, Len and friends - always memorable! New hope in Europe for #Ukraine this evening too!

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Heralding the start of #Spring in the uk. Bulbs emerging, insects awakening, hope rising.. #snakesheadfritillary #crocus #springbulbs #LondonGardens

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The incredible splendour of the Portuguese Manueline architecture exemplified at the Convento de Cristo, at Tomar. #architecture #Portugal

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

#Mainz #Rhineland - more architectural highlights from a quick hop over to Germany.

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

#Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg: a few architectural highlights…..

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Timeline cleanse… Having a desk in the Surveyor’s Office at StPaul’s is amazing, but the greatest privilege is a dark winter’s evening when almost everyone else has gone home, and you feel you have the whole place to yourself… #architecture #buildingconservation #cathedral #historicbuildings

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

9 days and 350 nautical miles last July compressed at last into 58 seconds! #LofotenIslands #ArcticNorway #Orca

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

#keepmusiclive Excellent night at the Bath House, Hackney Wick. Brown Horse headlining, support from Maripool, and the excellent Zach Thompson. #altfolk

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A little more of our brilliant #Norway #kayaking trip last weekend! Aurlandsfjord and #Naeroyfjord, 150km east of Bergen. Calm water and idyllic, stunning scenery - could spend a lifetime here… but it also reminded us of the power of #nature, as the wind later blasted down from the #mountains.

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Voringfossen, near Eidfjord, Vestland, Norway. Zoom in and check out the scale! Falls themselves are 165m high - and some very precipitous viewing platforms… #waterfall #norway #autumncolours #cliffs #vestland #voringfossen

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Kayaking and camping the Naeroyfjord and Aurlandsfjord, Vestland, #Norway #kayak #camping #starfish

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

4am last Sunday morning and lucky enough to see a pod of at least 6 #Orca, 3Nm off Andenes while rounding Andoya on a 90Nm (106 miles) 18 hour passage #arcticsailing #arcticnorway #whales #Norway

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#midnightsun #lofotenislands #arcticnorway #sailing #goodcompany Currently anchored overnight in a bay at Brettoya. Where else would anybody want to be..?!

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Arctic sailing in #Norway this week. #LofotenIslands starting at Harstad and heading south-west out to the islands. #snowcaps #sailing #rainbow #arctic

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Condition surveying at NT Sizergh Castle in #Cumbria today with the National Trust team. Grade I listed, with 14th,16th, 18th & 19th C major building periods. #architecture #heritagebuildings #castle #buildingconservation #lakedistrict

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Quick dash up to the Lake District ready for a day working with @nationaltrust.org.uk tomorrow - nice pub in #Oxenholme and just had to stroll out to The Helm to walk off supper in the 9:30pm dusk.

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

40 years of listening to your music @mickpuck.bsky.social @waterboysmusic.bsky.social - and a cracking blast through it last night at the Roundhouse #London - thank you! Great gig, great crowd.

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Sun on our backs and the lightest of breeze on our faces - Putney to Chiswick Rlwy bridge and back. #putneybridgecanoeclub #kayak #riverthames #london #sunshine

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Surveying this week at Caister Castle in #Norfolk - early brick structure from 1432, but ruined by 1600, still with moat and a climbable 100ft tower! Overnighting with old friends in the lovely Aylsham, which is the final resting place of Humphrey Repton-hope he approves of his landscaped memorial !

A ruined brick castle with a tower and moat

Looking up the inside of an open castle tower

Evening view of a village with brick cottages

A church memorial with planted hedging and rose bushes in front

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Coming out of ‘the office’ this evening and found myself inside the #VE80 security cordon…. So unfortunately had this view all to myself! #VEDay @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social #London #Spitfire

A WW2 Supermarine Spitfire at the West Front of St Paul’s Cathedral

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Out on the Thames again - dodging the rowers. More like a mid-summer morning than an April one. Light haze burning off to warm sun. #kayak #London #RiverThames #kayaking #putneybridgecanoeclub

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Low sun, evening sunset, South Bank London. Time to look up and outwards, not down and inwards with the longer Spring evenings.. #London #riverthames #sunset

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Sometimes, just sometimes, @bsky.app is a bit like the very old days on Twitter. On your phone on your way home on the top deck of the 77 bus to Tooting, and you can have a brief ‘chat’ with Mike Scott of the Waterboys! Has made my evening 😅 👍@mickpuck.bsky.social

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Back Brixton again - at the Electric (aka The Fridge) for #HighVis and #NarrowHead in support. #livemusic #Brixton #LondonGigs #ElectricBrixton

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Rather more profuse than mine!

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Damp, cold and drizzly on the Thames this morning- but good to get some fresh air, exercise and paddling chat. And try out the new-ish club P&H Leo - nice! #putneybridgecanoeclub #RiverThames #kayak #kayaking Hot shower time now!

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Wonderful evening of stories and music at @greennote.bsky.social #Camden with #TheUkrainians band - and a chat with Len Liggins & Peter Solowka after, discussing the last time I saw them in the Acoustic Tent @glastonbury.bsky.social 1992… see you in another 32 and-a-half years….

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

-3C as we set off up the Thames for a paddle in the beautiful winter sunshine. Putney to Barnes and back, 6.5 miles via Hammersmith Bridge & Chiswick Railway Bridge. #kayak #kayaking #London #RiverThames @thames21.bsky.social

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

To the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for The Tempest - Sigourney Weaver is fine, the rest of the cast great (esp Matthew Horne) - and the staging is exceptional - a cinematic production. Rather worth a trip if you can get the tickets! #theatre #westend #shakespeare #thetempest

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year, from a Chelsea rooftop in London (and 2 and a half hours ago..) #HappyNewYear #London #GreenwichMeanTime #roofscape #fireworks

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

‘Blade Runner 1982’ isn’t an urban design style to aspire to, but Vauxhall Cross from a walk over Vauxhall Bridge did look quite cinematic and dramatic in the Thames mist late last night…. #BladeRunner #SciFi #architecture #urbandesign #London #Vauxhall #SouthLondon #NightTime

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Wishing you all a Happy & Peaceful Christmas from London. Pic: Kings Cross Station Sent from: Surveyor’s Office, St Paul’s Cathedral Triforium, with the gallery door open, listening to the carol service music drifting up from below. #Season’sGreetings

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

So, would anybody guess my age from my listening choices…. 😂 (Also lucky to have seen most of them live in 2024 - twice for #BrownHorseBand ) #music #keepmusiclive

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fondly recalling my return visit to Stowe House last year, some 17 years after completing the conservation and restoration of the South Front and Marble Saloon. It was still looking fabulous! #StoweHouse #architecture #buildingconservation

Large decorative plaster domed ceiling with an eliptical rooflight

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Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Post you from a different era (1990 - first car - which was the same age...)

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