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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 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 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 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 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 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 74
St Patrick's Day, 2016
This is the best I can do to celebrate St Patrick's Day, the handle of my blackthorn shillelagh set against a background of fal...
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Day 75
Weighing in the pre-digital age.
In this increasingly digital age there is probably an app for all conceivable tasks. How things have changed in my li...
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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 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 77
Satanic toenail clippings.
If the Devil really must trim his toenails in our kitchen then all that I ask is that he sweep up the clippings before he l...
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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 82
To any dead officer
A cross for Good Friday and a reminder that we are in the middle of commemorating the centenary of the Great War. ........... "Goo...
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Day 89
A sinister little flower
A couple of years ago we planted a few bulbs of the snake's head fritillary Fritillaria meleagris, a lily which is native to...
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Day 85
A colonial animal
Another photograph of a marine Bryozoan, possibly Flustra foliacea although I'm not sure. Bryozoans are tiny animals that belong to...
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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 83
A crucifix from far away.
And it was about the sixt houre, and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre. And the Sunne was da...
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Day 93
The Dahlia Anemone
We spent much of the day at the splendid marine aquarium at Macduff. This is the colourful Dahlia Anemone Urticina felina. We think...
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