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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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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 103
The photographer
On our way to Seville we spent a few hours in Ronda where I spotted a proper photographer snapping the tourists. #afternoon #sunday #...
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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 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 9
The fabled Golden Cowrie
A Golden Cowrie from the South Pacific, atop an alabaster dish from Italy. #afternoon #sunday #shell #january #golden-cowry #...
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Day 2
Winter green
Mosses, lichens and stones #afternoon #sunday #stones #january #lichens #mosses
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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...
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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 226
A selfie with my good friend Bale
#selfie #autumn #nature #afternoon #landscape #wednesday #sky #yellow #november #gold #grain #field #straw #countrys...
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Day 76
A flower called testicle
It doesn't seem very long ago that to see a tropical orchid was a rare privilege; now, of course, the garden centres and supe...
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Day 127
The maternity ward
Back in the mid 1960s I helped to put up a couple of dozen nest boxes to be used in a University study of Starling ecology. The Uni...
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Day 159
An anther
A pollen machine. #morning #sunday #red #anther #june #pollen #hippeastrum
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Day 139
My, that's a whopper!
A fine day for a spot of ship-spotting at Peterhead Harbour. This is the very impressive Grand Canyon, registered in Panama and...
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Day 20
The Scoville Scale
Today is the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacologist who devised the Scoville scale used to measure the heat...
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Day 46
Jelly lugs
These "ears", or lugs as we call them in these parts, are the fruiting bodies of the fungus Auricularia auricula-judae, commonly known as j...
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Day 105
The bull-ring Seville
When in Spain. visit the bull-ring! A very impressive structure, but I'm glad that there was no fighting that day. How this utte...
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Day 106
A Moorish door
I do so like a good door and this one, in the old Mosque at Cordoba, was particularly impressive. #afternoon #wednesday #door #april #m...
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Day 84
The Zenith
This small, very small, boat although registered in Peterhead is currently hauled out at the harbour of Port Errol at Cruden Bay. The verti...
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Day 163
The dead and the cross
In pre-reformation Scotland the graves of the important might be marked with a large and elaborately carved Celtic cross. Follo...
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Day 39
High tide
The tides are very high at the moment and this afternoon the water was backing up along the Foveran Burn and flooding the salt marsh. #thurs...
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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 140
A day out on Royal Deeside
We had a castle day today. First to Drum Castle, only to find that it was closed! Then, another 4 miles up the Dee valley t...
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Day 155
The $2000 dollar question
When I last studied genetics, quite a few moons ago now, it all seemed quite straightforward, with Gregor Mendel growing wri...
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