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-Scotland

Across to Cramond Island

This causeway leads across the Drum Sands to the tidal island, Cramond, about one mile out in the Forth.  The path is only accessible at low tide; always check the timings unless you fancy […]

Christmas

Naughty or Nice?

Nice enough to get a present that matches your desires, or naughty enough to have an empty stocking? I’m not going to tell you which category you fall in, though there […]

-Edinburgh

Dark Room on a Wet Night

Camera obscura = dark room – an optical device that led to photography and the photographic camera Linked to Weekend Reflection Copyright Debbie Smyth, 18 December 2015    

-London

Masterpieces at Christmas

St Paul’s Cathedral (above) is viewed as being Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece. It was built on the site of a medieval church destroyed in the Great London Fire of 1666.  It was […]