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Day 211
Meadow waxcaps
#afternoon #tuesday #november #fungi #waxcaps
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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 266
Wire, shrapnel and shell splinters
The Last Laugh. Wilfred Own 'O Jesus Christ! I’m hit,’ he said; and died. Whether he vainly cursed or prayed indeed...
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Day 270
Spume
Spume - Foam, froth, frothy matter. From the Old French spume or the Middle English Spome. For example: 1440 Gesta Romanorum. For all thing that...
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Day 299
The woman who was buried twice!
This morning I took Mrs Talpa and her friend to the nearby market town of Inverurie where they were to receive their a...
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Day 319
Down to the basics
This is an extreme close-up of a spurge flower. The tiny flowers, 3-4 mm in size, contain just the essential parts needed for sexua...
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Day 348
An indoor rock-pool
It is horribly wet today and so I have resorted to creating an indoor rock-pool, based on a ceramic dish made by Lotte Glob, and t...
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Day 7
One I prepared earlier
We humans are not the only ones suffering the results of the current inclement weather. Hundreds of little auks Alle alle, a se...
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Day 19
A sea potato
This is a sea potato. Sometimes called a heart urchin, and known scientifically as Echinocardium cordatum, it lives in offshore burrows i...
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Day 25
Scottish tattie for sale
Photographer Kevin Abosch has sold a photograph of an Irish spud on top of a black background for 1 million euros. The photog...
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Day 64
We are all in it together!
The austerity measures inflicted on us by the kindly Mr Osborne and his various Old Etonian chums, are working wonders and...
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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 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 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 99
A very small halibut
This is a small, 2 inch long carving of a a halibut fish (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) made by an Inuit craftsman. The interest lie...
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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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Day 129
Peterhead Harbour
This is the Clasina, a beam-trawler from Grimsby, but currently berthed in Peterhead Harbour A beam trawl consists of a cone-shaped...
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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 139
My, that's a whopper!
A fine day for a spot of ship-spotting at Peterhead Harbour. This is the very impressive Grand Canyon, registered in Panama and...
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Day 138
The plantain (not the cooking banana variety!)
The ribwort plantains Plantago lanceolata are in full flower. One of the commonest of our British wild...
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Day 136
Scurvy
The April showers continue to fall well past their allotted time. The scurvy grass is in full bloom at the moment and the air is heavy with its...
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Day 130
Our Saturday adventure
We spent the afternoon admiring the 5 miles of box hedging that are to be found in the Great Garden of Pitmedden. When the grou...
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Day 179
“The blood is the life!” ― Bram Stoker. Dracula
This evening we visited Slains Castle, the cliff-top ruin that inspired Bram Stoker to write the novel...
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Day 203
Fractal geometry
#october #trees #afternoon #saturday #clouds #fractals
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