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Day 40
Tough little flowers!
The wind is howling and the rain is lashing down but the newly emerged female Hazel flowers are hanging on for grim death. Not a...
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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 131
The good old days
Will this be our lot if we opt for BRexit? Who knows? I certainly don't! #afternoon #sunday #europe #future #may #lavatory #cludgie...
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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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Day 158
Pine cones, apples and pineapples
In Late Middle English pineapple denoted a pine cone. For example in the 13th century De Proprietatibus Rerum by Bar...
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Day 224
Strange Clouds
#nature #afternoon #landscape #monday #sky #clouds #sunset #frost #november
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Day 45
Magnifying the past
A view down the microscope of a fragment of woven linen cloth used to wrap the mummy of a hawk in Ancient Egypt, probably around 1...
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Day 80
A guiding light
A view of Robert Stevenson's magnificent 1827 lighthouse at Buchan Ness, the most north easterly point on the British Mainland #aftern...
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Day 92
Baking day
The grandchildren are in residence - time to do some baking! #morning #tuesday #baking #april #cakes #granddaughter #grandchildren
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Day 178
Meet the torturer.
Today we spent a happy few hours at Castle Fraser where the National Trust for Scotland had organised a session of Mediaeval Madnes...
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Day 119
New life
A happy family of Canada geese. enjoying the warm sunshine. #afternoon #tuesday #canada #may #scotland #geese #goslings
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Day 135
Requiem for a tangerine
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller. Author. 189...
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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 150
A late arrival.
Hippeastrum is a genus of South American bulbs whose cultivars are commonly sold by florists and garden centres as Amaryllis. ProperAm...
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Day 164
An Inuit carving of a walrus.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and ki...
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Day 180
Castle Dracula
".... Suddenly I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined...
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Day 14
The golden ball
The recent gales and floods have cast many strange objects onto the beach. Is this a rarely seen denizen of the deep? #friday #afterno...
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Day 115
The Universe.
To keep myself fruitfully occupied over these last few wet, windy and cold days I have been developing a new theoretical model of the Un...
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#128
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Day 128
Cuckoo Flowers
The Cuckoo Flowers, a.k.a. Lady's Smock are now in flower on our rough bit of grass. The Bard mentioned them in his Love’s Labour’s Los...
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#161
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Day 161
A good father
Our resident blackbird is an exemplary father, spending every minute of daylight collecting food for his demanding family in the nest. B...
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Day 154
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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 90
Enjoy them whilst you can!
These are the black winter buds of the ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior). Sadly these magnificent trees are in great danger of...
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Day 33
The Newburgh Venus
Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology
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