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Day 138
The plantain (not the cooking banana variety!)
The ribwort plantains Plantago lanceolata are in full flower. One of the commonest of our British wild...
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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 120
A harmelss trilobite
"After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it ge...
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Day 44
Diamonds are forever
A 3 mm long diamond beetle, mounted on a microscope slide, a survivor from the days that Queen Victoria was on her throne. #after...
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Day 133
An old souvenir from Ypres
At the end of the Great War, the bereaved, mainly women, who could afford to make the journey started to visit the cemeteri...
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Day 171
A dark, dark day.
Just before 6 o'clock this morning I was awoken by a loud roll of thunder and rain of biblical proportions. I switched on the televi...
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#173
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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 182
The Great British Divide
Down in the City of London the young herring gulls will doubtless be feasting on the fine remnants of Michelin-starred expens...
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Day 41
A fine pair of legs
These are two of the legs of a human flea dating from the year 1843. Are you feeling the itch? #afternoon #saturday #legs #februar...
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Day 50
Capillaries
A microscopic view of the network of blood capillaries around a small bunch of muscle fibres. The capillaries have been injected with a re...
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Day 111
A very big bull!
Our visit to the Spanish bull-rings last week got me thinking about the ancestors of our domestic cow Bos taurus. This is a 250,000 y...
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Day 113
A German prisoner of the Great War
As our commemoration of the Great War continues, a perspective from the German side. In the newspapers you read: ‘P...
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Day 114
A sign of the times.
This bridge, one of three that connect our village with the links across the Foveran Burn, was gifted to the people of Newburgh i...
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Day 148
A desert oasis.
July 1918. A SPAD XIII, of the 95th Aero Squadron, flies high over a desert oasis somewhere in the Middle East. Well, perhaps not! #af...
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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 29
Skeletal remains
Just like us, leaves have a skeleton with a beauty all of its own. #trees #afternoon #leaves #monday #death #life #february #skeleton...
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Day 65
Once more into the micro-world
Once more a dip into the microscopic world; this time a look at a thin slice of a thyroid gland. The mammalian thyroid...
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Day 77
Satanic toenail clippings.
If the Devil really must trim his toenails in our kitchen then all that I ask is that he sweep up the clippings before he l...
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Day 5
A day for nostalgia
Any abysmal day - dark, darker, wet and wetter. Any outdoor photograph would be a study in 500 shades of grey. Just the day to wal...
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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 174
The Somme
The Somme A hundred years ago tomorrow the battle of the Somme began on the Western Front. By the time that it ended, four and a half months...
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Day 181
Bad and good times
The first world war now seems like ancient history. But occasionally events remind us that it is still within the memory of our old...
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Day 16
Mud, water and ice
"Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea." Great Expectations. Charles D...
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Day 27
On Golden Beach
Patterns in the sand at low tide. #afternoon #saturday #sea #sunrise #beach #january #sand
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