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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 271
Just a pussy cat!
This is the skull of the sabrecat Hoplophoneus primaevus. This cat-like carnivore lived in what is now South Dakota in the Oligocene...
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Day 297
Elephant skin
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. Charles Laughton. English actor. 1899-1962 It might look like elephant skin but in reality...
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Day 300
Hot air
It's looking a bit wild in the south. I think it must be due to all the hot air being generated in Westminster, with a bit extra from Edinburg...
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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 261
Darkness
Here in the Northern hemisphere the days are getting longer by the day. Up at Pond Inlet in Baffin Island the Inuit people are eagerly lookin...
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Day 262
Hogmanay 2016
When I was born it was a truly rich man who could have tropical orchids growing in his house. Now the country is awash with them - some...
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Day 291
Diamonds
Another fairly miserable day, the rain has stooped, the wind has dropped but the fog is as thick as fog. Another day with the microscope. The...
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Day 337
Early morning chemistry
This morning the youngest Talpid had a great time exploring the thixotropic properties of a mixture of cornflower and water. G...
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Day 344
A pebble
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting mysel...
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Day 215
Mellow Fruitfulness
#autumn #afternoon #saturday #november #mellow #season
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Day 318
Protecting the nation's fish.
Under the new Immigration Act (2017) all gulls born in the UK now have to be individually tagged so as to protect our fi...
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Day 197
Wild geese
#thursday #october #afternoon #wild-geese
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Day 207
Stones and a living stone
#friday #afternoon #november #stone #lithops
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Day 209
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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Day 279
The tetrapylon of Palmyra
More bad news from Palmyra, the ancient Roman city in the Syrian desert. Militants from the Islamic State group have destroy...
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Day 310
Hazel flowers The flowers of the hazel tree appear very early in spring, before the leaves. Each tree produces both male flowers and female flowers. T...
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Day 343
A Trowie and Parasols
A rare photograph of a Trowie. Trowies are malignant or mischievous fairies or spirits in the folklore of Scotland, particularly...
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Day 352
The Jewish quarter Budapest
#afternoon #old #vintage #house #road #monday #color #street #city #urban #graffiti #wall #architecture #building #novembe...
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Day 251
Myrrh
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes of life of gathering gloom Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying Sealed in the stone-cold tomb From the...
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Day 324
Super trawlers
Another wander around the ever-interesting harbour at Peterhead. This morning the place was packed with fishing boats presumably taking...
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Day 341
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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Day 191
Dead tractor, Westray, Orkney
#october #afternoon #tuesday #tractor-orkney-westray
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Day 216
Death smiles at us all.
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Roman emperor from 161 to 180 This grav...
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