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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 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 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...
#157
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...
#111
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...
#133
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...
#171
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...
#5
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...
#16
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...
#129
Day 129
Peterhead Harbour
This is the Clasina, a beam-trawler from Grimsby, but currently berthed in Peterhead Harbour A beam trawl consists of a cone-shaped...
#182
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...
#44
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...
#50
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 120
A harmelss trilobite
"After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it ge...
#148
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...
#143
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...
#27
Day 27
On Golden Beach
Patterns in the sand at low tide. #afternoon #saturday #sea #sunrise #beach #january #sand
#29
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...
#34
Day 34
The trouble with birds
I think we're in real trouble. I don't know how this started or why, but I know it's here and we'd be crazy to ignore it... The...
#77
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...
#114
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...
#174
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...
#9
Day 9
The fabled Golden Cowrie
A Golden Cowrie from the South Pacific, atop an alabaster dish from Italy. #afternoon #sunday #shell #january #golden-cowry #...
#11
Day 11
The loneliness of the long distance pathemaker
Scottish Natural Heritage are improving one of the heavily used paths on the Sands of Forvie Reserve. T...