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Day 63
An old puff
As I may have mentioned before, I am a hoarder, descended from a long line of hoarders. Yesterday, Mrs Talpa decided to clean out the bath...
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Day 89
A sinister little flower
A couple of years ago we planted a few bulbs of the snake's head fritillary Fritillaria meleagris, a lily which is native to...
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Day 87
Weathercock opportunity
Quite some time ago the Weathercock on the village church fell off his perch. Early this morning we held auditions for his rep...
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Day 97
Two old rocks
It is cold and it has been raining for much of the last 24 hours. A day to think of warmer times! When on holiday I always bring back a...
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Day 108
Homeward bound
All too soon we are back on the aeroplane, heading back to to a cold Scotland. I couldn't help but think of all those poor bulls that s...
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Day 110
Back to reality
Back in Scotland I have spent the morning sorting out the photographs from our few days in Spain. Today's photograph is of bitter Sevi...
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Day 112
Bonsai horse chestnut
My Bonsai horse chestnut is now in its third year. Perhaps this summer it will flower and set fruit and then my new sport of Bon...
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Day 117
The Fox and Box
When all inspiration has deserted me, what better than a still life of the skull of a red fox, sitting on a Shaker maple-wood box? The...
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Day 127
The maternity ward
Back in the mid 1960s I helped to put up a couple of dozen nest boxes to be used in a University study of Starling ecology. The Uni...
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Day 146
Recycling
We bought our old slow cooker 37 years ago. Recently it has started to overheat and so we we have just taken delivery of a new one; I doubt...
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Day 143
The Newburgh branch line
We regret to announce that the five fifteen, from Ellon to Newburgh via Foveran Mill, is delayed at Foveran; indefinitely! Th...
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Day 157
No Gift on earth Pure Water can excel
Today, the national celebrations have started to mark our Queen's official 90th birthday, which is tomorrow. Thi...
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Day 167
In the temple
Today I present you with a persimmon sitting on a rather special Fijian wooden dish, known as a daveniyaqona vakaga. The Wesleyan missio...
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Day 168
Reality
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. A quote from the Irish author Iris Murdoch (1919-1...
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Day 170
Our resident pollster
We have the grandchildren in residence today as their school is shut, it being a polling station. Our younger granddaughter has...
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Day 173
Newburgh, London.
A lovely day at Haddo house. This was the view along the central drive, reputed to be one Scots mile (1,973 and a third yards) in le...
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Day 205
Twisted
#morning #wednesday #november
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Day 184
Wild geese
#thursday #afternoon #sky #september #geese #skein #wild-geese
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Day 212
Im Westen Nichts Neues
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to tho...
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Day 229
Let sleeping cats lie
When a chap gets to the age of15 he needs his sleep! #portrait #afternoon #saturday #cat #animal #november #child #sleep #fur #p...
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Day 233
For whom the bell tolls
Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris (Now this bell, tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.) From Devotions upon...
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Day 238
Nature's velcro
Two tiny fruits of Galium aparine, commonly known as cleavers, clivers, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky...
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Day 240
What is life?
"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave." Quentin Crisp. English writer and raconteur extraordinaire. 1908-1...
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Day 246
The Bone Man
Another visit to the museum. Today, the skeleton of a python; a masterclass in skeleton preparation and articulation. #thursday #afternoo...
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