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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 177
The E-Ship 1
I spent the morning around the harbour in Peterhead and was rewarded by seeing one of the most interesting ships that I have ever come ac...
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Day 199
Bastet, the cult of the cat.
The grandchildren have departed and the house is suddenly very quiet! Before they left, they wrapped Thomas; I knew that...
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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 268
The saliva machine
Another peek down the microscope. This is a section of a mammalian salivary gland. Salivary glands are made up of secretory acini (...
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Day 275
A silken cocoon
I first photographed this little bundle of silk attached to a dwarf willow in the late summer of 2015. I then brought it home to see w...
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Day 286
The Doomsday Clock
From this morning's BBC website: "Scientists say the world has edged closer to apocalypse in the past year amid a darkening securit...
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Day 297
Elephant skin
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. Charles Laughton. English actor. 1899-1962 It might look like elephant skin but in reality...
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Day 311
A Nguzunguzu
It's very cold today, just the day for a nostalgic trip to the South Seas. This carving is a modern version of a Nguzunguzu, a war canoe...
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Day 26
Flowers for the dead.
Scattering flowers on the grave of the newly buried is an ancient tradition. This Victorian statue in Inverurie graveyard shows...
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Day 36
Skull of a Sumatran rhinoceros
The smallest of all rhinos, the Sumatran rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis currently competes with the Javan rhino for the...
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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 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 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 123
An old book
This is probably the oldest thing that I possess, apart from some seriously old rocks and fossils. Printed in Edinburgh in 1666 it is a sm...
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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 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 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 169
Arches, keystones and star fish.
I learned today of the death of an eminent ecologist; Robert Treat Paine III, April 13, 1933 – June 13, 2016 What fol...
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Day 176
Old Dyce War Cemetery
The Old Dyce Commonwealth war cemetery lies in the grounds of the tranquil and ancient Church of St Fergus, overlooking the Rive...
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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 197
Wild geese
#thursday #october #afternoon #wild-geese
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Day 187
Porcelain fungus
#october #afternoon #tuesday #mushroom #porcelain
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Day 208
All the colours of a rainbow and Autumn
#morning #autumn #saturday #colour #november #rainbow
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