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Day 134
A wide expanse of Gorse
At the moment the links are covered in acres of glowing golden gorse. In 1736 the great Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl L...
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Day 35
Imogen makes her entrance
Since November 2015 the UK Met Office and Met Éireann, the Irish Met Service have been running a pilot project to name wind...
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Day 162
Wet, wet, wet
A photograph, taken through the kitchen window, which sums up today pretty well. It has poured down all night and shows no sign of abati...
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Day 31
The land meets the sea
A lone ship passes the mouth of the Ythan river whilst en route to Aberdeen. #afternoon #wednesday #ship #february #ythan #nort...
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Day 132
I've seen the light - and it's yellow!
Out for a ride on my push-bike this morning; the landscape is very yellow at the moment! The rank smell of the...
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Day 237
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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Day 126
Seabird city.
Another glorious day here in the North pf Scotland. The sea birds are busy nesting on the local cliffs and this was the scene at Hackley...
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Day 149
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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Day 160
A Scottish Lake.
Scotland has lots of lochs, but very few lakes; this is one of them, the Lake of Keithfield, which sits in the policies of Haddo Hous...
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Day 130
Our Saturday adventure
We spent the afternoon admiring the 5 miles of box hedging that are to be found in the Great Garden of Pitmedden. When the grou...
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Day 153
The leaning monument of Foveran
This monument in the Foveran graveyard is looking very precarious, to my mind dangerously so. Many older monuments, of...
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Day 62
The water works
A wet, wet day; just the day for a spot more microscopy. This is a photograph of a small part of a very thin slice of kidney, stained...
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Day 109
The Bard and the Saint.
We are newly returned from Spain (back blips to follow) on the day that sees the happy coincidence of St George's day and the...
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Day 123
An old book
This is probably the oldest thing that I possess, apart from some seriously old rocks and fossils. Printed in Edinburgh in 1666 it is a sm...
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Day 61
The 19th hole
The village golf course was totally deserted today, unsurprisingly given the threatening sky looming over the clubhouse. It's a big sky,...
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Day 1
Waves
heavy seas at Collieston harbour #afternoon #saturday #january #waves #collieston
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Day 12
Sun and ice
'tis a miracle, the sun has been in view all day, from sunrise to sunset! At last it has turned cold and the new lochs on the golf course,...
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Day 79
The Harkand Da Vinci
There were some impressive ships in Peterhead this morning including this, the Harkand Da Vinci. Built in 2011 in South Korea and...
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Day 177
The E-Ship 1
I spent the morning around the harbour in Peterhead and was rewarded by seeing one of the most interesting ships that I have ever come ac...
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Day 69
Marram grass under the microscope
The photograph shows a stained, thin cross section of the leaf of marram grass Ammophila arenaria. #afternoon #satur...
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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 141
The Rhacoma root
This flowering plant is an alien to Britain, its natural distribution being along the banks of the river Volga. In the past it was th...
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Day 151
The worm's eye view
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." Edvard Munch. Norwegian artist. 1863-1944 This i...
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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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