We’re firmly into the storm season now although the media appears to think today’s winds are something unusual with their focus on ‘huge’ waves, hurricane winds and people who ‘can’t remember the last time it was this bad’. How about last winter? Wind speed is around 50mph, with gusts to 70mph. It is dangerous outside, [...]
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A more typical sunset
3 November, 2011
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Readers who have seen the sunset photos I’ve published from time to time may well have concluded that our part of Scotland is a lovely, bright, sunny place with glorious sunsets. Today, I decided to set the record straight and photography a more typical sunset. That’s right, there’s no sun. There’s just cloud cover from [...]
Read more Enjoying the ‘heatwave’
1 October, 2011
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Britain is sweltering in the grip of an unseasonal heatwave, with people stripping off in the sizzling weather, being swept out to sea as they enjoy the sun at the beach and scoffing icecreams by the vanload. Or so the media is proclaiming: Hot on the heels of the warmest end to September on record, [...]
Read more Dunnideer at sunset
10 September, 2011
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Looking south towards Dunnideer at sunset.
Read more A typical summer’s day
16 July, 2011
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The croft on a lovely, Scottish mid-summer’s day: dull, overcast, drizzling, cold and misty. It was almost dreich, but that would need a fair helping of misery as well. And we’re not miserable. ARE WE? .
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