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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 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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#133
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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 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 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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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 136
Scurvy
The April showers continue to fall well past their allotted time. The scurvy grass is in full bloom at the moment and the air is heavy with its...
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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 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 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...
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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 27
On Golden Beach
Patterns in the sand at low tide. #afternoon #saturday #sea #sunrise #beach #january #sand
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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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#138
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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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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 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 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 169
Arches, keystones and star fish.
I learned today of the death of an eminent ecologist; Robert Treat Paine III, April 13, 1933 – June 13, 2016 What fol...
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Day 172
A tale of goats and musicians
This afternoon I was rooting through a drawer full of "stuff" in search of a WW1 trench map. I failed to find the map bu...
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