Hi All 👋 Some of the Many (of the windows of Callendar House) is my entry for Ludvig’s Monday Window challenge. Make sure to get over to his blog for more window-centric posts.
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Santa Monica Beach — Photo for the Week #48: Water
Hi All 👋 Here’s my entry for Bren & Ashley’s PFTW challenge.
Make sure you get along to their site for this challenge and their Before and After Challenge, as well as their fantastic photographs
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Icy Rhododendron Leafs — Flower of the Day Dec 3
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Frost Edged Leafs — Flower of the Day Dec 02
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Fan Of… #44 — Frosty Days
Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in this weekly challenge whenever you find yourself thinking “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how to).
This week’s Fan Of… is frosty days. I’m a huge fan of those bright, clear, frosty days which can add a bit more interest to photographs.
Frost edged leafs 
How To Join In
- Create a Fan Of… Photo Post.
- Add a link to your Fan of… blog post in my comment box or create a pingback by linking to my post.
- Title your post Fan Of… or add Fan Of… tag.
Have a great week
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Oil on Water — Water Water Everwhere #4
Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water will do). See below for how to join the fun
Oil floating on water How To Join In
- 1 Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
- Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box or create a pingback by linking to my post.
- Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.
Hae a guid week 😁
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Puddock Stuil — Things in Scots #2
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see her post), and we’ll be posting daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
Puddock stuil (mushroom) is today’s Things in Scots; or puidock steel in the north east.
All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes?
If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!
Hae a guid day
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Rimie Moose Wab — Things in Scots #1
Hi All 👋 and welcome to December’s project: Things in Scots. This month I am collaborating with my wife, Susan (? follow this link to see her post), and we’ll be posting daily — Things in Scots (great title eh?).
And without further ado, Things in Scots #1 is a rimie moose wab (frosty spider’s web). We’d had quite a hard frost with freezing fog, so naturally it was camera time. There are other words for frost: freest, ringin frost (hard, prolonged), jeel (frostiness), shairp, cog (frost nail), nip-nebs (best name ever for Jack Frost), garb (thin coating of frost). There are also names for hoar frost: haar freest, cranreuch and rind.
All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
As we do these posts, we’re learning as well; so we apologise in advance for any mistakes?
If any of you out there have a burning desire to know the Scots word for anything, please let us know!
Hae a guid day
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Haggis — Animals in Scots #29
Hi All 👋 A nice simple one in honour of St Andrew’s Day — Haggis (haggis), or in Scots Gaelic: taigeis.
Haggis in some other languages; Catalan: Haggis, Basque: Haggis, Danish: Haggis, Estonian: Haggis, French: Haggis, Icelandic: Haggis, Latvian: Haggis, English: Haggis, Swahili: Haggis. Even in Latin, haggis is haggis! Let’s face it, a haggis is a haggis, no matter where you are! Try saying haggis that many times after a whisky
Haggis All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
With November and Animals in Scots coming to a close (which is good because I’ve run out of animal pictures), next month I’m collaborating with my wife, and doing a Random Things in Scots Month; so see you then!
Hae a guid St Andrew’s Day???????
