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Mar 24th, 2016

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Day 81 Mar 24th, 2016

We are surely doomed!

I popped out very early this morning to attempt to photograph the Moon and Jupiter with my pocket camera. Just as I pressed the...

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Feb 2nd, 2016

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Day 30 Feb 2nd, 2016

The Radiance and the cherub

Old Scottish gravestones are often carved with symbols of our certain mortality and possible immortality. The reminders of...

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May 15th, 2016

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Day 131 May 15th, 2016

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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Nov 21st, 2016

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Day 224 Nov 21st, 2016

Strange Clouds

#nature #afternoon #landscape #monday #sky #clouds #sunset #frost #november

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May 19th, 2016

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Day 135 May 19th, 2016

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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Feb 23rd, 2016

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Day 51 Feb 23rd, 2016

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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Mar 23rd, 2016

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Day 80 Mar 23rd, 2016

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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Apr 5th, 2016

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Day 92 Apr 5th, 2016

Baking day

The grandchildren are in residence - time to do some baking! #morning #tuesday #baking #april #cakes #granddaughter #grandchildren

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Jul 16th, 2016

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Day 178 Jul 16th, 2016

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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Jan 9th, 2016

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Day 8 Jan 9th, 2016

The swede and tree

Following the recent floods on the Ythan river Newburgh beach is covered in debris, including uprooted trees and swedes washed out...

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Feb 5th, 2016

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Day 33 Feb 5th, 2016

The Newburgh Venus

Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology

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Feb 27th, 2016

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Day 55 Feb 27th, 2016

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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Apr 30th, 2016

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Day 116 Apr 30th, 2016

Dead wood and sea milkwort

This little plant is sea-milkwort Glaux maritima, which lives in sand and shingle near to the high tide mark. At the end of...

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Jun 3rd, 2016

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Day 150 Jun 3rd, 2016

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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Jun 14th, 2016

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Day 161 Jun 14th, 2016

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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Apr 16th, 2016

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Day 102 Apr 16th, 2016

A Spanish Donkey

We are in Spain, for the first time in our lives. Our first stop was at Mijas with its fleet of donkey taxis. I must say that donkeys...

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Jun 17th, 2016

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Day 164 Jun 17th, 2016

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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Feb 17th, 2016

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Day 45 Feb 17th, 2016

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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Apr 29th, 2016

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Day 115 Apr 29th, 2016

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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Jan 15th, 2016

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Day 14 Jan 15th, 2016

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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Jun 18th, 2016

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Day 165 Jun 18th, 2016

Strutting your stuff.

I always enjoy a visit to our local plant centre , not least because it boasts a fine collection of domestic fowl. #afternoon #s...

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Jul 23rd, 2016

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Day 180 Jul 23rd, 2016

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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Apr 21st, 2016

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Day 107 Apr 21st, 2016

The Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper was busily conducting his business outside the Cathedral in Granada. Luckily, he didn't spot us! #morning #thursday #d...

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Apr 3rd, 2016

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Day 90 Apr 3rd, 2016

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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