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Day 49
The Battle of Verdun
The battle of Verdun, which started 100 years ago today, was one of the great battles of the first world war, fought between Fran...
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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 51
Striated muscle
Our skeletal muscles, those over which we have conscious control, are made up of fine fibres. Under the microscope the fibres have a d...
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Day 52
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Well, the pebbles and sand are clearly mineral. But what of the branching object that has been cast up on the beach? At...
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Day 53
Snow is in the air.
We woke to a covering of snow, but most of it soon melted. By the look of the sky there is more to come! #thursday #afternoon #clo...
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Day 54
Cut to the bone
This is a very, very thin slice of bone, stained with silver salts, as seen down the microscope. Bone consists of multiple microscopic...
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Day 55
Scum
According to the Oxford English Dictionary scum is: A film or layer of floating matter formed upon the surface of a liquid in a state of fermenta...
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Day 56
Sex and the alder
The Alder Alnus glutinosa is monoecious, that is to say that it produces both male and female flowers on the same the same tree. The...
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Day 57
The bridge over Britain's shortest canal
This morning I headed to Peterhead harbour, always a source of something interesting. It was as cold as Hell...
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Day 58
How we all started off ...
Another view down the microscope, this time looking at a thin slice through an ovary. The small round structure in the cent...
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Day 59
A visit to Kinnaird lighthouse.
A trip North today, to Fraserburgh, to the The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses at Kinnaird Head. I particularly enjoyed...
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Day 60
Our local wreck
Number 1, I distinctly said hard a PORT! #thursday #afternoon #error #march #estuary #shipwreck #navigation #ythan
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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 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 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 64
We are all in it together!
The austerity measures inflicted on us by the kindly Mr Osborne and his various Old Etonian chums, are working wonders and...
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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 66
Waste not want not
Each morning we pour part of our pensions into the bird feeders outside our kitchen window. A few seconds later the starlings arriv...
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Day 67
If you go down in the woods today ...
The fungi are pretty thin on the ground at this time of the year. All I could find this morning was this little...
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Day 68
Hazel's sex life
The Hazels are well into flower, spring must be here. Hazel trees are monoecious, with both male and female flowers on the same tree....
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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 70
Beach combing
The two shell valves of a common cockle, Cerastoderma edule, cast up on the fore-shore. #afternoon #sunday #beach #march #newburgh #cock...
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Day 71
The crocus
Three winters ago our village gardening group spent several very muddy days planting 1000s of crocus bulbs. We are now reaping the benefits...
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Day 72
In a country kirkyard
Part of the glebe behind Foveran Parish Church The slopes leading down to the Foveran Burn are currently carpeted with an ancien...
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