The former Whale Hotel in Harbour Road in Eyemouth, dating back to 18c, now in need of some tlc #pubfrontfriday

Gateshead #fingerpostfriday

In Wooler Northumberland #pubsignthursday

The entrance to the Old Courthouse in Ripon #adoorablethursday or perhaps #thursgate

For all fellow #Heroneers this park near the centre of Edinburgh has become a favourite haunt: just a few of the birds I saw this morning!

The so-called "Bishop's House" next to Elgin Cathedral. Dating back to 1406 it was probably the home of the Precentor #wallsonwednesday #windowsonwednesday

The village of Blyth in the Bassetlaw District of Nottinghamshire #woodensday

The only remaining part of Fison's Chemical and Fertiliser Plant at Sandstell Point in Spittal, Berwick-upon-Tweed #ChimneyChewsday

An Ash Tree beside Bolton Abbey #thicktrunktuesday

In the railway arches in Gateshead #muralmonday

A highlight of our holiday in Yorkshire, seeing a handsome male Mandarin on the River Wharfe near the Strid #mallardmonday

The Great Chamber in East Riddlesden Hall near Keighley in Yorkshire #ceilingsonsunday

Lovely greens and yellows in this window in Ripon Cathedral (south window in the west facade). Can anyone please provide information about it, as I can't find any? #stainedglasssunday @riponcathedral

#postboxsaturday in Bolton Abbey Village in Yorkshire

In 19c this building was successively Ripon's Council House and then its Police Station #shopfrontfriday

#fingerpostfriday in Ripon, such an interesting city

#thursgate leading to the terrace at Newby Hall near Ripon

Originally 'The George and Dragon Inn' in Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire #adoorablethursday

In the fields next to our holiday cottage at the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales #waderwednesday

The Tudor wing of Skipton Castle #windowsonwednesday

A Black Walnut just coming into leaf at East Riddlesden Hall in Keighley #thicktrunktuesday

Spiral chimneys at Barrington Court (NT) in Somerset #ChimneyChewsday

Afternoon nap time at East Riddlesden Hall NT #mallardmonday

The bronze Civil War Memorial in Newark (by Neale Andrew) #allmetalmonday

Lesser Black-backed Gulls nest on roof-tops in Edinburgh. Here is one on the city's Blackford Pond #SuperSeabirdSunday

The chancel of Holy Trinity in Skipton #ceilingsonsunday

The 8c Rodney's Stone in the grounds of Brodie Castle in Moray #stoneworksunday

12c St Gregory's in Bedale in Yorkshire #steeplesaturday

#pubfrontfriday in Causewayside in Edinburgh

At Ightham Moat in Kent #adoorablethursfay

The Grenadierspoort (1634) leading into the Binnenhof in Den Haag #thursgate

A former tradesman's handcart now part of the 'North Berwick In Bloom' displays #woodensday

The Canongate Kirk (1691) in Edinburgh #windowsonwednesday

A Common Sandpiper on the search for its next meal #waderwednesday

A Copper Beech in St Mary's churchyard in Haddington #thicktrunktuesday

A family visit to the beach at Gullane #tidesouttuesday

On the FWW Memorial in North Berwick: "Trade is the Glory of Victory" #allmetalmonday #monumentmonday #memorialmonday

Teal ! #mallardmonday

Our Lady Kirk of Upsettlington, across the Tweed from Norham Castle, built in 1500 by James IV #steeplesaturday

The former Gardeners Arms, now closed, in Haddington. Its name derives from the fact that it was the originally meeting place of The Ancient Fraternity of Free Gardeners of East Lothian, a Friendly Society founded in 1676 #pubfrontfriday

The former George Watson's Ladies' College (1893) in George Square in Edinburgh, now the University Department of Psychology #adoorablethursday #thursgate

Common Seals on their favourite rocks for low tide at Prestongrange

A Curlew on the East Lothian coast #waderwednesday (but a day late for #worldcurlewday!)

The Quadrangle of Holyrood Palace (1670s, by Sir William Bruce) #windowsonwednesday

Part of a bedroom suite T Philip Webb's Standen House NT: 1896, rosewood with marquetry inlay #woodensday

The Martyrdom of St Ursula: wool and silk, 1490-1500, Middle Rhine, Germany (Now in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow) #textiletuesday

A Horse Chestnut greening up for Spring in the Gosford Pleasure Grounds in East Lothian #thicktrunktuesday

Dabbling ducks ... but which species? #mallardmonday

In St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick: did he fulfil his parents' ambitions ? #memorialmonday

A Cormorant fishing at Musselburgh #SuperSeabirdSunday