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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 15
The North Sea: Newburgh Beach
Why go to Bali when you could go to Newburgh beach? Well, for a starter, the food is better in Bali and the wind doesn't...
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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 24
At the seaside
#afternoon #tuesday #sea #storm #january #collieston
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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 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 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 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 152
The cormorant maternity ward
Another beautiful day here today, just the day for a dander along the sea cliffs. The cormorants are still sitting on the...
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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 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 104
A piece of the true cross
One of the many reliquaries in The Cathedral at Seville. This one is said to contain a piece of the cross on which Christ wa...
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Day 10
Commuting
I do believe that it has stopped raining! A lone helicopter en-route from a North Sea oil rig to Aberdeen International Airport. The passeng...
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Day 144
This way to the seals.
If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise.- you won't see any seals! Over the last few years a large hau...
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Day 60
Our local wreck
Number 1, I distinctly said hard a PORT! #thursday #afternoon #error #march #estuary #shipwreck #navigation #ythan
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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 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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Day 170
Our resident pollster
We have the grandchildren in residence today as their school is shut, it being a polling station. Our younger granddaughter has...
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Day 175
Lame ducks
The American politician George C. Wallace once stated that "I am the lamest lame duck there could be". Well George, be warned that at the m...
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Day 168
Reality
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. A quote from the Irish author Iris Murdoch (1919-1...
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Day 125
The transit of Mercury
By far the most interesting thing in my life today was the transit of Mercury. How fortunate we are to live at a time when it i...
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Day 35
Imogen makes her entrance
Since November 2015 the UK Met Office and Met Éireann, the Irish Met Service have been running a pilot project to name wind...
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Day 162
Wet, wet, wet
A photograph, taken through the kitchen window, which sums up today pretty well. It has poured down all night and shows no sign of abati...
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Day 134
A wide expanse of Gorse
At the moment the links are covered in acres of glowing golden gorse. In 1736 the great Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl L...
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