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Services Fire station in a tiny village (population 300) on the Isle of Mull.

I haven't found any topic about caves, so I started one! Here is Fingal's Cave on Isle of Staffa, Scotland, UK.

I saw these two derelict boats by the side of the road on Isle of Mull and I immediately new I had to stop to take a few pictures. Within minutes there were four cars squeezed in a tiny lay bay, with everyone getting out and taking pictures. It seems to be a major tourist attraction! Here are...

Machair I promised something specific to Scotland. Machair (ma-herr) is a type of fertile sand found in coastal areas of Western Scotland, in particular in Outer Hebrides. It looks weird: brilliant white sand and grass growing on it.

Sheep You cannot ignore sheep in Scotland. It is not New Zealand (with over 7 sheep per capita), but with 6.6 million sheep in the country you see them everywhere. White, black, white with black faces. All sorts. And it is lambing season, so lot's of little ones.

Signs Keep clear of propeller's what?

Transport Ferry doesn't pop up first in your mind when you hear "transport". But there are many islands in Scotland and people use ferries a lot. Also, I had a ferry trip today, so let me start with the Oban-Craignure ferry crossing.

Waste To continue the topic of dog poo, here is where dog owners are supposed to dispose of their dog bags. These signs are all over the country. They always amused me. Apologies for the quality of this particular sign, I couldn't find any better tonight.

Signs A few signs in public parks.

Housing Family homes. Detached two-storey houses with three or four bedrooms. Modern houses are surprisingly small (apparently smallest in Europe) and often crammed in large residential estates with twisty little streets (no grid of blocks) and nothing else but houses. No shops, no post office...

Housing Bungalows. In the UK a bungalow is a single-storey building. They are popular among retired people (no need to climb upstairs). Quite often you will find an immaculate little garden at the front.

Parks Local nature reserve. A small pond between residential estates. 200 years ago it used to provide water to bleach works and other textile mills. The ponds were created to accumulate water from the local river. In those days it was extremely polluted. Now, it's been converted into a nature...

Never been to Texas. Picked a random place in North Texas on Google maps and now I understand what you are talking about. Wow, this is really flat.

A little noisy bird took up its residence in a tree just next to my house. It is quite loud! I cannot really see it and I know very little about birds. Can anyone recognise it from its sound? https://youtu.be/WJk-Riq-Ptg

Housing In contrast with previous pictures (also contrasting weather), a modern (built last year) block of posh flats with a river view

Housing continued An old factory, converted into flats An old apartment block