East Lothian is a lovely county: with beautiful coastline and beaches, rich farmland and rising up to the Lammermuir Hills.

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

Dublin Castle #staircasesaturday

St Hilarion Castle in North Cyprus: originally 11c Byzantine, later upgraded by the Lusignans
#castlesaturday

An engine on the Snowden Mountain Railway #ferrousfriday

The Allanton Inn in Allanton in Berwickshire #pubfrontfriday

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One if the beautiful doors in the National Museum of Archaeology in Dublin (opened 1890) #adoorablethursday

Paneling (1575-1585, in the Italian Early Renaissance style) in the Inlaid Chamber in Sizergh Castle in Cumbria #woodensday

Palazzi on the Grand Canal in Canareggio in Venice #windowsonwednesday

In the gardens of Holyrood Palace #thicktrunktuesday

Inveraray at low tide #tidesouttuesday

A female Mallard all at sea: not in the tamer inland context where we mainly see them, but 300m off the sea-wall at Musseburgh #mallardmonday

A good selection of symbols for #mementomorimonday on this headstone at the Old Kirk in Temple in Midlothian

Geometric designs in a floor in the House of Dionysos (3c) in Paphos in Cyprus #mosaicmonday

A Yellow-legged Gull preening #SuperSeabirdSunday

A row of angels above the lintel of the west door (1195-1230) of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh #stoneworksunday

The church of St John the Baptist overlooking the River Nidd in Knaresborough (13-15c, with some good 17c memorials & William Morris stained-glass) #steeplesaturday

Known as "the Coffin" because of its shape,The Central in Gateshead's Railway Quarter was built as premises for a wine-merchant in 1856. It became a hotel c.1890, and was bought by a pub chain in 2009 #pubfrontfriday

The south door of Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, looking across the parkland towards the obelisk #adoorablethursday

The Gatehouse (1861) of Holyrood Palace #thursgate

A Redshank in its spruce Spring outfit, at Skateraw in East Lothian #waderwednesday

The wooden leg used by Colonel Charles Fraser after being wounded in the Peninsula War in 1812. (Displayed at Fraser Castle Aberdeenshire.) He was also wounded in the head, but continued to manage the castle & estate until he died at the age of 79 #woodensday

Hampton Court Castle near Leominster in Herefordshire
Originally built in 1472, it has undergone extensive renovations: it us now used for events #windowsonwednesday

Jacobean woman's waistcoat (c.1620) (Fashion Museum, Bath) #textiletuesday

A Sycamore in Gosford Pleasure Grounds in #EastLothian #thicktrunktuesday