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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 3
Storm Force 10
The shipping forecast CROMARTY Gale Warning: Gale warning issued 3 January 21:53 UTC Southeasterly storm force 10 continuing, decreasin...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 4
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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