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Nov 3rd, 2016

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Day 206 Nov 3rd, 2016

Let the conker games beginAve, Imperator, morituri te salutant

#thursday #afternoon #november

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Oct 3rd, 2016

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Day 186 Oct 3rd, 2016

Great Western Road, Glasgow

#october #afternoon #monday

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Nov 4th, 2016

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Day 207 Nov 4th, 2016

Stones and a living stone

#friday #afternoon #november #stone #lithops

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Nov 6th, 2016

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Day 209 Nov 6th, 2016

Now! Now!

The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the...

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Nov 29th, 2016

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Day 232 Nov 29th, 2016

Memento Mori

Skulls (and crossed-femurs) are common symbols on old Scottish gravestones. Some would have it that they mark the graves of pirates but i...

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Dec 6th, 2016

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Day 239 Dec 6th, 2016

A beluga whale in Aberdeen

An utterly miserable day and all that I have managed to photograph is a photograph. The original photograph taken in 1884,...

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May 3rd, 2017

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Day 329 May 3rd, 2017

Serenity

Our family Buddha has returned to his summer residence following his winter holiday in the garden shed. I live in daily hope that some of his...

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Jan 10th, 2016

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Day 9 Jan 10th, 2016

The fabled Golden Cowrie

A Golden Cowrie from the South Pacific, atop an alabaster dish from Italy. #afternoon #sunday #shell #january #golden-cowry #...

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Mar 17th, 2016

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Day 74 Mar 17th, 2016

St Patrick's Day, 2016

This is the best I can do to celebrate St Patrick's Day, the handle of my blackthorn shillelagh set against a background of fal...

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Apr 1st, 2016

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Day 88 Apr 1st, 2016

An old bird

It is extremely cold today, despite it being Summer time! Just the day for a photograph of one of my Inuit stone carvings. This one of a s...

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Apr 16th, 2016

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Day 102 Apr 16th, 2016

A Spanish Donkey

We are in Spain, for the first time in our lives. Our first stop was at Mijas with its fleet of donkey taxis. I must say that donkeys...

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Apr 30th, 2016

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Day 116 Apr 30th, 2016

Dead wood and sea milkwort

This little plant is sea-milkwort Glaux maritima, which lives in sand and shingle near to the high tide mark. At the end of...

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Jun 2nd, 2016

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Day 149 Jun 2nd, 2016

The Quincunx

A good friend and colleague, now sadly departed this earth, used to much enjoy an after-dinner search for obscure words in the Oxford Eng...

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Jun 19th, 2016

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Day 166 Jun 19th, 2016

Earlier today

We were very late to bed last night and I took today's photograph in the very early hours. This was the view to the north with a gatheri...

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Oct 25th, 2016

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Day 201 Oct 25th, 2016

Cauliflower slime mould

#october #afternoon #tuesday #slimemould

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Oct 12th, 2016

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Day 192 Oct 12th, 2016

Texel sheep in Orkney

#october #afternoon #wednesday

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Nov 11th, 2016

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Day 214 Nov 11th, 2016

Remembrance

Today is the day that we remember the war dead, the dead of all wars, from all nations. On such a day we can do no better than to reflect...

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Nov 17th, 2016

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Day 220 Nov 17th, 2016

Autumn colours

It's not just dying leaves that provide the wonderful warm colours of Autumn. #thursday #autumn #nature #afternoon #landscape #red #lea...

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Dec 4th, 2016

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Day 237 Dec 4th, 2016

A little Christmas cheer

In these days so full of bad news it is good to be reminded of the inherent kindness of most people. The account that follows...

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Dec 22nd, 2016

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Day 253 Dec 22nd, 2016

Gold

Born a King on Bethlehem's plain Gold I bring to crown Him again King forever, ceasing never Over us all to reign From the American carol We thre...

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Dec 25th, 2016

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Day 256 Dec 25th, 2016

Safely delivered

And sche bare hir first borun sone, and wlappide hym in clothis, and leide hym in a cratche, for ther was no place to hym in no chaum...

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Jul 25th, 2017

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Day 341 Jul 25th, 2017

Renaming

I'm all in favour of changing the common names of plants and animals to reflect the times in which we live. So, I suggest that henceforth the...

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Jan 5th, 2016

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Day 4 Jan 5th, 2016

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany, the day when the wise men visited the infant Jesus. It is also the night on which the Christma...

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Jan 15th, 2016

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Day 14 Jan 15th, 2016

The golden ball

The recent gales and floods have cast many strange objects onto the beach. Is this a rarely seen denizen of the deep? #friday #afterno...

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