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-Edinburgh

Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby is probably the most famous and loved pet in Scotland.  He was a Skye terrier who, so the story goes, pined for years at his master’s graveside in […]

-Barcelona

Y is for… Yule Log

Strictly speaking, a yule log is a large piece of wood burned on a fire and forming part of a traditional Christmas celebration in many parts of Europe. For me, […]

-Belgium

Mother Christmas

Mother Christmas is busy making lace in a shop window close to the Grande Place in Brussels. Linked to Ruby Tuesday.

-Manchester

Work Complete

The latest murals in Stevenson Square in the Northern Quarter are now complete. It was a typically damp Manchester day but I wasn’t the only one taking photos of this […]

-London

From the Greatest to the Least

I’m not entirely sure whether this sculpture in Kew Gardens  is something useful or whether it’s a device for torture, but it is certainly exquisitely made and very inventive. Linked […]

-Madrid

Lamp and Shade

I can’t resist a good wrought iron lamp, especially when it is casting a fancy shadow.  This Madrid lamp was casting an elongated shadow in the early winter sun. Linked […]

-Botswana

Stilt Walker

I spotted this charming Black-winged Stilt in the Okavango Delta, though you don’t need to travel that far to see them; they are widely distributed around Western Europe, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, and South and […]