Tag: Jez Braithwaite

  • Doors in Callendar House — Thursday Doors

    Doors in Callendar House — Thursday Doors

    Hi All 👋 My door’s for Norm’s Thursday Doors are from Callendar House, Falkirk.

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  • Layered — One Word Sunday

    Layered — One Word Sunday

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s OWS: Layered.

    Layered Fungus

    Fungus by Jez Braithwaite
    Fungus

    Layered Snow

    Layered snow

    Layered Chrysanthemum

    Chrysanthemum
  • Pig — Things in Scots #5

    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?).

    If you were thinking of the four legged animal that bacon (mmmm, bacon) comes from; sorry, nope! That would be a grumphieA pig is a vase, also known as vawse. In this case we have gum-flooers in a pig!

    Pig/flooer vawse (flower vase) by Jez Braithwaite
    Pig/flooer vawse (flower vase)

    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

  • Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #74: Abstract

    Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #74: Abstract

    Hi All 👋 This week Patti hits us with abstract!

    There was a lot of head scratching going on for this one; so after much looking up of the word and gaining inspiration from all the other fantastic entries for this weeks challenge, I decided on these pics, which I think hit the mark?

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  • Crystal Glow — Tuesday Photo Challenge

    Crystal Glow — Tuesday Photo Challenge

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Frank’s Tuesday Photo Challenge: Glow.

    For this one I was playing around with my Himalayan rock salt tealight holder in a darkened room. Owing to the varying thickness and chrystaline structure of the holder, each aspect diffuses the flame within differently; the flickering of the flame also alters the intensity of the glow coming through the walls of the holder.

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  • Icy Leafs and Stem — Flower of the Day Dec 05

    Icy leafs & stem
    Icy leafs & stem
    Icy leafs & stem in mono by Jez Braithwaite
    Icy leafs & stem in mono
  • Gum-flooer — Things in Scots #4

    Gum-flooer — Things in Scots #4

    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?).

    Keeping with the floral theme, today’s Things in Scots is gum-flooer (artificial flowers).

    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