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Day 121
Election fever
Today is election day. Here, in the People's Republic of North Alba, citizens are able to vote at the age of 8. The grandchildren are e...
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Day 122
The mean streets
As I was enjoying my morning porridge I became aware of a commotion developing in the garden. A gang of nine male mallards had manage...
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Day 124
Summer time
The sky is blue, the air is warm and Buddha has emerged from his winter quarters, it must be Summer time! #afternoon #sunday #buddha #summ...
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Day 126
Seabird city.
Another glorious day here in the North pf Scotland. The sea birds are busy nesting on the local cliffs and this was the scene at Hackley...
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Day 127
The maternity ward
Back in the mid 1960s I helped to put up a couple of dozen nest boxes to be used in a University study of Starling ecology. The Uni...
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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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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 133
An old souvenir from Ypres
At the end of the Great War, the bereaved, mainly women, who could afford to make the journey started to visit the cemeteri...
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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 132
I've seen the light - and it's yellow!
Out for a ride on my push-bike this morning; the landscape is very yellow at the moment! The rank smell of the...
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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 137
Lion dancing in Newburgh
Big day today - the village gala. All the usual events, a tent with cakes and teas, a bouncy castle, singing, violin playing,...
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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 141
The Rhacoma root
This flowering plant is an alien to Britain, its natural distribution being along the banks of the river Volga. In the past it was th...
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Day 142
Blue, yellow and green
Mix the blue of the sky with the yellow of the rape-seed and you get the green of the grass. The Universe works in such interes...
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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 148
A desert oasis.
July 1918. A SPAD XIII, of the 95th Aero Squadron, flies high over a desert oasis somewhere in the Middle East. Well, perhaps not! #af...
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Day 147
Dr Auzoux's Cockchafer
It being the month of May, photographs of May bugs Melolontha melolontha (a beetle a.k.a. the cockchafer, billy witch, and span...
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Day 149
The Quincunx
A good friend and colleague, now sadly departed this earth, used to much enjoy an after-dinner search for obscure words in the Oxford Eng...
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Day 146
Recycling
We bought our old slow cooker 37 years ago. Recently it has started to overheat and so we we have just taken delivery of a new one; I doubt...
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Day 145
Jutland
A poppy for the 2551 German and 6094 British seamen who died in the North Sea at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. #morning #sunday #germany #may...
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