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03/11/2018

Latest post from Quillcards - The Interior of the Kollegienkirche in Salzburg:

This is the interior of the Kollegienkirche, or college church, in Salzburg, with sculpted clouds around the window above the altar.

27/10/2018

In the UK the clocks go back 1 hour at 2am on Sunday 28th October.
When the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST)
When the clocks go back, the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). How is Universal Time (UTC) measured? https://quillcards.com/blog/universal-time/

One of the less understood measurements of time is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). That’s because unlike, for example, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in London or Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the east coast of the United States it is not the time measured in a particular place. Instead, it is the s...

08/03/2018

We drive to Ronda, a town divided by a 100m-deep gorge cut by the Guadalevín River, with the two sides connected by three bridges. We use the town as a base to visit the string of villages nestled in the mountains on the route south to Malaga. They are known as the White Towns.

08/03/2018

Part Three of our journey across Andalucia

We travel by train from Cordoba to Granada. We visit the Alhambra and the Moorish area known as the Albaicín that tumbles down the hill with narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past dating back to the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.

30/01/2018

Quillcards May Be Affected By Our Web Host Patching Vulnerabilities in Intel Chips. Read about it here https://quillcards.info/web-host-patch-reboot-systems/ … and for what you can expect.

Quillcards May Be Affected By Our Web Host Patching Vulnerabilities in Intel Chips January 30, 2018 by admin You may have read in the news that there are industry-wide security vulnerabilities, known as Meltdown and Spectre, in the Intel chips used in literally millions of systems and thousands of w...

27/01/2018

Travels in Andalucia - Cordoba - a tale of two cities

https://quillcards.com/blog/travelling-in-andalusia-part-two/

Cordoba is hilly. We stay a few streets from the Mesquita - the grand mosque of Córdoba. It seems that all the shops and cafes pay homage to this walled structure in its heart.

20/10/2016

Here's our latest post:

http://quillcards.com/blog/channeling-jane-austen-to-cancel-out-donald-trump/

26/07/2016

Enter Self-Taught Palaeontologist Stan Wood

And that’s how things were until a self-taught Edinburgh palaeontologist named Stan Wood began looking in the Borders area in Scotland. He searched for fifteen years before he found what is now recognised as the oldest land-based animal fossils in the world.

From 2008-2011, he uncovered fossil animal skeletons, along with millipedes, scorpions and plants in sites in Scotland.

http://quillcards.com/blog/filling-romers-gap/

07/06/2016

What It’s Like Inside The Beak Of A Pelican
http://quillcards.com/blog/inside-the-beak-of-a-pelican/

30/05/2016

How was a farmer to know which were his sheep? From close up he would know them by their lug marks – distinctive cuts to the lug of their ears. But from far away, the farmer or the shepherd needed a different method.

13/04/2016

Agra ought also to be equally famous for what is locally called the Baby Taj, or to give it its proper name, the Itimad-Ud-Daulah.

http://quillcards.com/blog/itimad-ud-daulah/

02/01/2016

One Quick Day Sightseeing in Siena - article and photos :-)

30/12/2015

hHow To Enjoy The Uffizi Gallery - another post from the Quillcards blog:

30/12/2015

Marathon Days and Italian Chic In Florence - a new post from the Quillcards blog:

17/09/2015

I revisited an article we wrote in 2013. It's about cotton - its history, how it is picked, and some surprising things is it used for.

But I think the recent coming to a head of issues about colour in the United States made me think especially about life in the plantations during the era of slavery and what it meant to pick a bale of cotton.

http://quillcards.com/blog/cotton/

Pick A Bale Of Cotton October 16, 2013 by David Bennett 1 Comment Cotton BollsThis is a cotton plant and those are cotton bolls growing on the stem. I was looking for flowers to photograph when I saw this dried cotton plant for sale in a florists shop here in Edinburgh. I thought it was a cotton pla…

16/09/2015

Greenpeace accuses Taiwan of covering up illegal fishing, including shark finning.

16/09/2015

The Nelson Monument

Climb to the top of the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh and you get a certificate. It certifies that you have climbed the 143 steps of the winding staircase, up to the viewing platform.

If you think the monument looks like a telescope, you’d be right. It was designed to look like one and to commemorate Admiral Lord Nelson’s victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805...

The National Monument of Scotland and The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh September 16, 2015 by David Bennett Leave a Comment The Nelson Monument Climb to the top of the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh and you get a certificate. It certifies that you have climbed the 143 steps…

09/08/2015

Gannets on Bass Rock - the largest Northern Gannet population in the world - and seeing them overhead is a staggering sight:

http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2015/08/08/gannets-on-bass-rock/

Gannets on Bass Rock August 8, 2015 by David Bennett Leave a Comment Bass Rock in the Firth Of Forth sticks out of the water with sheer cliffs all around. From a distance the top of the rock looks white. It’s white with the density of gannets that call it home during the breeding season. At 150,000…

29/03/2015

Bearded Collies at the Edinburgh Scottish Breeds Show yesterday.


http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2015/03/29/woof-bearded-collies/

Woof – Bearded Collies March 29, 2015 by David Bennett Leave a Comment Sitting on a grooming table at the Scottish Breeds Show, this Bearded collie sat patiently, immobile even, while all around him dogs were being walked, groomed, tended to, displayed, exhibited, and judged. Not only bearded collie…

15/03/2015

Waiting for signs of Spring - the temperature is rising and the days are getting longer, but still Spring seems a long way off.

18/02/2015

Read more about Shaun the Sheep, the Chinese 2015 Year of the Sheep (which begins tomorrow), and the huge Scottish Kelso Ram Sales here in my latest Quillcards blog post.

Please note that Facebook is posting it strangely here, but when you click into the article — all the text and photographs are fine:

Super Sheep In the Spotlight February 18, 2015 by Tamara Colloff-Bennett Leave a Comment Trio of Blue-Faced Leicester Sheep Contemplating The WorldBeating Out The Competition Yessiree, things are surely revving up for sheep right now! To begin with, a 2015 animated comedy film produced by Aardman An…

09/02/2015

On Finding Long-Tail Keyword Phrases

If you write content for the Web, then you think about getting the best traction, the best exposure, the best sharing, and the best uplift from Google.

Or perhaps you don’t – and just write for yourself and take the view that whatever happens, happens. That’s good too.

But let’s assume that what you want is that the next time someone searches on Google for what you’ve written about, your article will be up there swinging with the best of them.

And let’s suppose that you want to give your article the best chance of being found and linked to and shared.

Of course, Google listens to social signals and to whether the content has been linked to from other sites. And Google measures what kind of sites link back – how relevant they are to the content you’ve published and what authority those sites themeselves have.

Looking just at the words on the page though, there is one thing that content writers know, and that is.. [read more...]

How long-tail keywords help Google find relevant content

31/10/2014

Here's the link to the Halloween ecards:

Halloween ecards from Quillcards

31/10/2014

Friday, 31st October, and it's Halloween. Take a look at our Halloween Ecards and scare yourself silly!

04/10/2014

World Animal Day Today October 4th!

World Animal Day began in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence and was created as a way to highlight the plight of endangered species.

It is intended as a day of celebration for anyone in the world who cares about animals and is not restricted to any one nationality, creed, religion, political belief or ideology.

Blog post at Quillcards Blog : We are running this 2010 article again to highlight World Animal Day 2012, today - October 4th. What Is There To Celebrate? The short an[..]

27/09/2014

"This is a bust of Sir Walter Scott in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

I think it bears a passing resemblance to Alex Salmond, the current first minister of the ruling party in the Scottish Parliament.

So Who Was Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet who popularised Scottish cultural identity in the nineteenth century.

In his own lifetime, Scott’s historical novels were read and admired throughout Europe and the USA. Many of his novels dealt with Scottish themes and even to this day they influence how Scots see their own past and on how Scotland is viewed from abroad.

Scott was born in 1771. To put that into context historically, the Second Jacobite Rebellion – a rebellion that attempted to regain the British throne for the Scottish house of Stuart – was in 1745..."

Blog post at Quillcards Blog : This is a bust of Sir Walter Scott in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. I think it bears a passing resemblance to [..]

07/09/2014

We went to Stirling and visited the castle - and what a strong experience it was...

http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2014/09/07/stirling-castle/

Blog post at Quillcards Blog : We went to Stirling yesterday, and this is a photo of the castle seen from below in the valley. We decided at the last moment to deto[..]

15/06/2014

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13/06/2014

Father's Day ecards at Quillcards - This is one of them. Twelve cards in total. http://quillcards.com