A Velvet Scoter in the Firth of Forth off Prestongrange #EastLothian #SuperSeabirdSunday

Beautiful foliage in the Chapter House of Southwell Minster #stoneworksunday

King Ethelred evoked in Victorian stained-glass at Ightham Mote NT in Kent #stainedglasssunday

Ss Peter & Paul's (1730s) in the Market Place in Blandford Forum in Dorset: a Grade 1 Listed Building, though the surgeon Sir Frederick Treves thought it "ugly and only tolerable at a distance"! #steeplesaturday

The sarcophagus in St Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary: hiberno-scandinavian in the Urnes style featuring interwoven stylised animals motifs; 12c and possibly the tomb of Tadhg MacCarthaigh, the brother of the King who founded the chapel c.1134 #sarcophagussaturday

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Some period style (1906) in Oban, the home of Chalmers Highland Tweed House #shopfrontfriday

A Gateshead signpost in the shadow of the Tyne Bridge, which was opened in 1928 to accommodate the increase in motorised traffic, and was, at the time, the longest single-span bridge in the world #ferrousfriday #fingerpostfriday

The impressive east gates of Inverleith Park in Edinburgh, erected in 1890 as a memorial to a Scottish antiquarian, Alison Hay Dunlop #thursgate

The entrance to St Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church in Old Cairo (aka The Hanging Church) #adoorablethursday

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A flock of Redshanks at the mouth of the River Esk in Musselburgh #wadersonwednesday

A wooden panel dated 1658 from the home of the Earl of Annandale in Cargen in Nithsdale in Dumfries and Galloway #woodensday (Dumfries Museum)

The 1497 Old Palace at Hatfield House, childhood home of Elizabeth I #windowsonwednesday #wallsonwednesday

A sampler featuring a Mermaid, complete with comb & mirror, made 1630-1700. NB other adjacent images, eg the peacock & the butterfly, here probably reinforcing themes of vanity & transience. Montacute House NT in Somerset #tapestrytuesday

#thicktrunktuesday near Haddington #EastLothian

A Fieldfare recovering after colliding with one of our windows. Happily, it flew off shortly after I took this photo. Lovely to see one so close-up, but not in these circumstances.

In Dalmeny Street in Leith #muralmonday

Two youngsters on the River Tweed near Paxton House in Berwickshire #mallardmonday

A lively relief depicting the God Amun-Re giving a scimitar to King Merenptah in celebration of his victory over invading Libyan tribes (1213-1203, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty): from El-Kom El-Ahmar & now in the new Grand Egyptian Museum #stoneworksunday #grandegyptianmuseum

Kittiwakes quite at home on the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle #SuperSeabirdSunday

Gortyna in Crete was the capital of the Roman province of Crete & Cyrene. 1) General view towards to Acropolis; 2) the Odeion. (The modern building houses the Gortyn Law Code Inscriptions from 6c BC) #romansitesaturday

Our local #postboxsaturday

The Duck Hill Shopping Quarter in Ripon #shopfrontfriday

The harpoon at Leith Docks, a relic of the whaling industry that operated out of Leith until 1963 #ferrousfriday

This evening's sky in #EastLothian

Some brightness on a dull day ... a village house in Agioi Deka in Crete #adoorablethursday

The #Arch of #Janus in #Rome #thursgate: appropriate for Thursday 1st January. Early 4c, but tbh, it is uncertain what the original function of this arch was, and it was only named after the god in the Renaissance period! 🎉 Happy New Year to all 🎆 Cntd/ more on the arch...

Black-tailed Godwits roosting in winter at Welney WWT #waderwednesday

The beautiful Gothic of the Lady Chapel (1326) of Wells Cathedral. (The East Window is a Victorian restoration.) #windowsonwednesday

A ceiling panel of a type popular in Scotland in 16 & 17c, made of fir wood imported from Scandinavia. This example is from Herdmanston House in Saltoun #EastLothian, a home of the Sinclair family, which was damaged by fire in 1956. #woodensday (National Museum of Scotland)

A hunting scene with a falcon attacking a heron: 16c Franco-Netherlandish, now in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow #tapestrytuesday

Low tide in Port Seton harbour on Christmas Eve brings rich picking for the Gulls #tidesouttuesday #EastLothian

#thicktrunktuesday hosting mistletoe, just in time for New Year's Eve! At Ightham Mote NT in Kent.

The Flight into Egypt is an important event in Christian history in Cairo: 1) in a modern mosaic in the Hanging Church in Old Cairo; 2) a map of the journey through Egypt; 3) a section of pavement, "the original ground which Jesus Christ's Holy Family walked on" #flightintoegypt #mosaicmonday

A Festive Owl with a Friend enjoying the celebrations at the Blue Bell Inn in Arkendale, Yorkshire #owlishmonday #bluebellarkendale

Male Scaup on the Nith Estuary at Carsethorn in Dumfries and Galloway #mallardmonday

A Velvet Scoter at Prestongrange in April #EastLothian #SuperSeaBirdSunday

The Annunciation, Nativity & Baptism: St Botolph's in Cambridge #stainedglasssunday

The Flight into Egypt: from the remarkable Romanesque Abbaye de St-Pierre de Moissac (11c) in Tarn-et-Garonne #stoneworksunday

The Hunt for the Kalydonian Boar, depicted on this face of this 2-3c AD sarcophagus in the Eleusis Museum #sarcophagussaturday

The Nativity: a detail of the remarkable frescos (c.1500) in the Church in Fanefjord in Denmark #frescofriday

The Nativity with attendant Wise Men and Shepherds, by Veronica Whall, in Carlisle Cathedral. (The window is in fact a memorial to Lt Anthony Harvey Bowman who died at Arras in 1916.) A Very Happy Christmas 🎄 to all my friends, followers and contacts on BlueSky.

The Tree of Jesse Window in Selby Abbey. The original of 1340 was destroyed by fire in 1906, and this is a faithful reconstruction based on paintings done after a refurbishment in the 1890s #windowsonwednesday

A Bar-tailed Godwit titivating itself in Musselburgh #EastLothian #waderwednesday

A camel at the pyramids at Giza beautifully dressed up in its finery for a day's work #textiletuesday

An Oak Tree catching the Winter sun in Clumber Park NT, in the Dukeries in North Nottinghamshire, part of the ancient Sherwood Forest #thicktrunktuesday

An owl in the grounds of Wallington House NT in Northumberland. (One of the sculptures made from trees that fell victim to Storm Arwen) #owlishmonday

A female Mandarin on the lake in Gosford Pleasure Grounds in #EastLothian #mallardmonday

An #AdventAngels bonanza in Michaelhouse in Cambridge. The East Window (Hardman 1872) is devoted to angels, and the scenes surrounding the tableau of Christ in Majesty are all of angelic interventions in the Old Testament. How many can you identify? (Tap to see the full picture) #stainedglasssunday