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Day 256
Safely delivered
And sche bare hir first borun sone, and wlappide hym in clothis, and leide hym in a cratche, for ther was no place to hym in no chaum...
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Day 255
ils ne passeront pas!
They shall not pass, well not without first offering up a mince pie. More seriously, "ils ne passeront pas" were the final words...
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Day 254
Barbara arrives in time for Christmas.
Therfor whanne Jhesus was borun in Bethleem of Juda, in the daies of king Eroude, lo! astromyenes camen fro the...
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Day 253
Gold
Born a King on Bethlehem's plain Gold I bring to crown Him again King forever, ceasing never Over us all to reign From the American carol We thre...
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Day 252
Frankincense
Incense owns a Deity nigh Prayer and praising, all men raising Worship Him, God most high From the American carol We three Kings of Orien...
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Day 251
Myrrh
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes of life of gathering gloom Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying Sealed in the stone-cold tomb From the...
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Day 250
The gull on the bridge on the river Ythan
This is the black headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus. It is only black-headed in the breeding season and...
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Day 249
A Merry Christmas from way up north.
Christmas greetings to you all from my favourite Inuk. The hard black steatite carving of an Inuk (man) is the wo...
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Day 248
A fine December day!
Bright, sunny and warm; surely it can't be nearly Christmas? The photograph speaks for itself, interesting clouds near to sunset....
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Day 247
The alma mater
Founded in 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, the University of Aberdeen is Scotland's third o...
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Day 246
The Bone Man
Another visit to the museum. Today, the skeleton of a python; a masterclass in skeleton preparation and articulation. #thursday #afternoo...
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Day 245
Meet the ancestors
I spent the afternoon in the old alma mater. Pottering around the Zoology Museum I bumped into one of the ancestors, admittedly a r...
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Day 244
Betwixt Heaven and Earth
#nature #afternoon #landscape #monday #blue #moon #sky #sunrise #cloud #sunset #heaven #december #earth #dusk #light-effect
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Day 243
Roman suace
"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." Marcus Terentius Varro. Roman author. The sauce that Marcus Varro had in mind would...
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Day 242
Darkness
"The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed." Bill Bryson #nature #friday #afternoon #landscape #sky #clouds #clou...
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Day 241
The close of the day
Towards the end of the day, the landscape photographers were busily adjusting their ND filters at the mouth of the Ythan. #thursd...
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Day 240
What is life?
"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave." Quentin Crisp. English writer and raconteur extraordinaire. 1908-1...
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Day 239
A beluga whale in Aberdeen
An utterly miserable day and all that I have managed to photograph is a photograph. The original photograph taken in 1884,...
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Day 238
Nature's velcro
Two tiny fruits of Galium aparine, commonly known as cleavers, clivers, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky...
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Day 237
A little Christmas cheer
In these days so full of bad news it is good to be reminded of the inherent kindness of most people. The account that follows...
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Day 236
A story of tallow, rifles and banknotes.
Beef and mutton tallow (rendered beef or mutton fat) are causing problems for the British once again. Back in...
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Day 235
What big teeth you have!
Two views of a tooth of Megalodon meaning "big tooth", from the Ancient Greek megas "big, mighty" and odous, "tooth". Megalod...
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Day 234
Barnacles
Charles Darwin is well known for his meticulous work on the biology of barnacles. The romantic in me imagines him working away happily on th...
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Day 233
For whom the bell tolls
Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris (Now this bell, tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.) From Devotions upon...
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