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What is round the next corner?
Or over the next hill?
Love's good coffee. And tea. But mostly coffee. And biscuits, dunked.

Reluctant optimist.
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carpe diem quam minimum credula postero
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#MoorningMoorhen
#Moorhenmadness

Caught this marvellous Moorhen doing some nifty balancing this morning

#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#Canalboatlife
#EnglishCanals
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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#MidnightMoon
#ColdMoon

Getting back to the boat late last night, everywhere seemed lit up by this amazing bright moon, but oh, it was freezing cold!

#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#Canalboatlife
#EnglishCanals
A startlingly bright moon appears to light up the slender branches of a shapely tree, adding sparkling highlights to the dark limbs. This photo even feels cold!
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Moorning!

Ducks on the cut in December....

Chilly start to the day, 2⁰C with a frigid breeze

But these birds chilling gracefully on the shorelines....

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
December 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#Reading station concourse

Absolutely ridiculous.
Soaking wet?
Really slippy.

#notsoGREATBritishRail

#networkfail

#railmisery

#ridiculousrail
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Sunday rail travel is often un grande boite du merde

#railmisery
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Hmmm
Why do so many evs look like really sh!t lego cars?
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#sunrise

That golden moment
Check alt text too

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
Blue sky with a few wispy clouds is set on fire by a egg yolk golden sunrise set behind spindly winter trees on the horizon. In the foreground ripples on the cut just about refect the golden sun.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Hmmm
This is a REALLY IMPORTANT muddy track....

#EnglishCountryside
#England
#nature
#rambling
#rambles
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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There's always a Moorhen!

#pmMoorhen
#nature
#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A #trainwindowview of a rainy Devon pastoral view, green fields and a rainbow

#railtraveller
#loveDevon
A typically English view from a train window, racing past a lush green field, hedges and ?Oak trees with a moody steel grey sky and a bonus end of a rainbow
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Fat Al johnson should be in prison
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Amazing Truro city from a #trainwindowview.

Technically this is the South coast as the inlet you can see is tidal, with the Channel waters heading up Carrick Roads from Falmouth

#loveCornwall
#rail
#railtraveller
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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If only.....
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
It was VERY chilly on the cut this morning!

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
A black mooring rope coated in white frost
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#TrainsOnTuesday
#Railfreight

Sigh
#DieselUnderTheWires
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Sunset over the cut
Reeds into the dark
Hardly a ripple

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
A bright amber sunset over the canal blending into a sky of deep indigo The skyline is broken by tall reeds, spiky against the sky A pontoon leads out to moored boats The canal is calm with none of the wild thrashing of the storm of last week
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Mesmerising.
Ripples on the cut.

#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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#MorningMoorhen

Rainy day on the cut

Moorhen making purposeful way up on to moorings

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The road straight ahead....
A GWR express train approaches Kemble station (a Great, great british railway station)
A GWR express train emerges from a tunnel, its headlights glinting on the rail ahead. A set of points can be seen in the foreground.
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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through the round window....

#thoseofacertainage
#canalboatlife
#narrowboatlife
#EnglishCanals
#bluesky
Morning view of beautiful skyblue sky (!) washed with a few high whispy cottonwool clouds viewed through a porthole window on a narrowboat.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Halloween moon on the water

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
A bright autumnal moon with halo and flare brightens up the dark and choppy water with flashes and glints of light.
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Aaaand stretch!

#midafternoonMoorhen

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#Englishcanals
#nature
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Amazing (blue)sky !

(Plus favourite tree)

View from a Narrowboat

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
#bluesky
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#MorningMoorhen

Sheltering from the chilly breeze

#Canalboatlife
#Narrowboatlife
#Narrowminded
#EnglishCanals
#Nature
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM