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| The miniature Yorkshire terriers Gaspar and Gontrond spy out the next door garden where a large Pyrenean mountain dog stares back at them, through the fence! |
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| A wonderful little gothic house in France, - probably belonging originally to the priest. |
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| The attic window in a small gothic house in a village in Indre, France. |
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| Chestnuts date back to prehistoric times and are a wonderful food source. They were introduced to Europe via Greece. Chestnuts contain twice as much starch as potatoes, and can be eaten in many forms. The photograph shows the chestnut in it's outer prickly shell and its shiny brown shell, beneath is an inner skin which has to be removed before cooking and eating.They are collected in October in France, and can be roasted, boiled, or ground into flour. |
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| Walnuts gathered in France. The shells in this variety are fairly smooth not thick, and unlike many types of walnuts don't have ridges, so more nut and less shell. |
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| The clever peppered moth caterpillar (biston betularia) disguises himself as a green twig on a rose bush! Predators, ( mainly birds) would find it hard to find him, so he can eat rose leaves in peace and security. (Could of course be a her)? |
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| Wonderful 19th century stained glass window at the head of the stairway to the 'Dental Lab'! |
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| Green door on the street that takes you into the world of the 'Dental Lab'. Original mid 19th century front door. |
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| Attractive typical 19th century Berwick-upon-Tweed staircase that leads - now - to a 'Dental Lab'. |
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| Old French pails and tubs with painted numbers and words arranged on an antique stand in an antique centre in perthshire, Scotland. |
