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These are fabulous! 🤩

A meme warning parents to check Halloween candy in case someone put the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in it.

Remember to check your kids candy for paleontology! #paleontology

A photograph of the moon

Happy #Halloween - my favourite celestial object came out swinging to celebrate 🎃

#Astrophotography #Moon #Astronomy #Stargazing

I had the pleasure of meeting Dugie in 2022 during a trip to Skye. He was so humble and always made time to speak to everyone.

A true loss to palaeontology

Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for James Price. The text says he was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. One challenge to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead killed himself by drinking prussic acid.

icon behavior

A hand holding three PlayStation game boxes with the one on top featuring three Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs and the title “Jurassic world evolution 3”

A videogame screenshot of a green dinosaur in a sandy desert

A videogame screenshot of a large Sandy brown rock with a window on top in front of a forest

Guess who’s got Jurassic World evolution 3…? 👀

Although I miss having a dedicated database and I’m still having trouble with modular building, I’m having a blast! 🦖
Even managed to make my own attraction - “Cliff Face Viewpoint”

Check it out: workshop.frontierstore.net/mod/item/756...

The White House in Washington DC behind a black iron fence

A selfie of myself wearing a blue T-shirt with a dinosaur on it, glasses, and a baseball cap, standing in front of a road which is in front of the White House in Washington DC surrounded by an iron fence

So glad I got to see the White House before its vandalism…

London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting ‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars

Now going on display www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A tv displaying fishermen in red trousers surrounding a large fish head lying on its side with its mouth open

Best part of Jurassic World Rebirth without a doubt is the Dunkleosteus cameo 🐟

Finally we have Placoderm representation and I can link Hugh Miller museum’s fossils with the Jurassic franchise! 🙌

A graphic illustration on a dark blue background. In white letters it says 'seismic activity' and in gold it says 'alert'. There is a gold s wave running horizontally across the graphic. The BGS logo is top right.

BGS SEISMIC INFORMATION: PUBIL, PERTH & KINROSS 20 OCTOBER 2025 17:06 UTC 3.7 ML

The following preliminary information is available for this earthquake:

DATE: 20 October 2025
ORIGIN TIME: 17:06.43s UTC
LAT/LON: 56.551° North / 4.552° West
GRID REF: 243kmE / 743kmN
DEPTH: 2.6 km
MAGNITUDE: 3.7 Ml

Hög

A hand holding a blu ray copy of “Jurassic world rebirth”. The cover features a dinosaur skeleton in the centre, three mercenaries underneath, and a monster at the top. A hand is holding the blu ray on the bottom left corner

It’s time 👀🦖🦕

The more they make these movies, the more kids remain interested in dinosaurs, the more people visit my little fossil museum 💰

A grey oval shaped rock with black fish fossil bones and scales on it. The rock is being held in a pink right hand. The background is a grey rocky shoreline with the blue sea on the horizon

A photo taken through a microscope of a black fossil fish jaw with sharp triangular teeth

A photo taken through a microscope of black fossil fish scales on a grey background

A photo taken through a microscope of a black fossil fish bone on a grey background

Found this GORGEOUS Cheirolepis fish fossil on Cromarty Beach yesterday evening - it’s 385 million years old! 🐟

Truly blown away at how well preserved it is given it’s been exposed to the forces of nature! 🌊

Took a closer look at certain features under a microscope - just look at those teeth! 🤯

I’m hoping to attend next year so note you have set an expectation for 2026 with this post 👀

An archaeological dig on a field with a few trees and people in high visibility jackets

A small brown ball (musket ball) in the palm of a hand - itself covered in an orange glove

A small brown key sitting on fingers on a hand - itself covered in an orange glove

A photograph of a man (myself) wearing glasses, gloves, a blue fleece, and a high vis jacket. The man is standing on a field with a few sporadic trees in the background. The man is holding a mud covered shoe

Highlights I found from this year’s archaeological dig at Culloden Battlefield:

• My first musket ball (only took me five years worth of digs to find one!)
• A mysterious old key, obviously for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s liquor cabinet (this is a joke)
• An old shoe that’s at least late 19th century 👀

Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth

This is honestly depressing…

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

A new poem of mine 'A Hazel Tree for Hugh Miller' has been included in a booklet for Hugh Miller's Birthplace Museum. 'New Legends from Old Scenes' for part of Hugh's birthday celebrations.
#hughmiller #scottishpoetry #cromarty #versecycle #carolineburrows #poet #SpenserianSonnet

Before y’all ask yes I tried the Hugh Miller mutton chops, and yes I did not like them - they have since been removed 🪒

Found people in the bottom left stand in front of two white historic buildings alongside a road

So proud of how the weekend went - thanks to everyone who attended or supported us in the lead up, including the “old guard” I used to work with at Culloden! 🙏

Here’s to the 2026 Birthday celebrations! 💪

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…but not as excitable as our grand finale - the rocket launch! 🚀

We’re soon going to be known around the town for this rocket, easily the best thing we’ve bought for the museum! 💥

This video is best watched with sound just to hear the delight of lots of children being amazed by science 😊

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Two kids stand mesmerised by a flask overloading with bubbly chemicals

A white table with a chemistry flask overflowing with green bubbles

Of course we did science experiments too! 🧑‍🔬

First up on both days this weekend we played with chemistry and did an elephant toothpaste experiment and then a Diet Coke/mentos experiment - lots of excitable screaming kids at this session… 🧪

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A Victorian gentleman in a brown tweed waistcoat stands in front of a white historic house

A Victorian gentleman in a brown tweed waistcoat stands inside a historic house talking to three children

A woman in pink sits on a chair in a historic house surrounded by people who she is talking to

We also had two special guests help us out! 👋

Living historian Andrew Newton brought the Victorian period to life inside Hugh Miller’s Cottage, whilst storyteller Lizzie McDougall told folkloric tales to kids inside the same room Miller would have heard similar stories as a kid! 🎩

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Two drawings hanging on a clothes line in a historic houses

A child drawing a picture on a blue table inside a historic houses

Two children doing a craft activity on a yellow table inside a museum

A Green cartoon dinosaur puppet

There were also a couple of kids craft activities, including our “new legends from old scenes” in which we tasked several creative writers to create new folkloric stories which then served as inspirations to create new landscape artwork.
Our “design-a-dinosaur” craft was also very popular! 🦖

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Four people on a pebble beach in front of a White House and trees

A small round stone with a black fossil fish scale. The stone is sitting on a green base with a white and black scale bar above it

A hand holding a small rectangular stone with pieces of brown fossil fish bone on it. The stone is sitting on a green base with a white and black scale bar above it

We had a trio of fossil hunts on Cromarty beach, including one on Hugh Miller’s 223rd birthday. Here’s a couple of the best finds this weekend! 🦴

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A young girl with stripy sleeves is building a small craft cardboard dinosaur on a yellow table

A gentleman in Victorian period clothing speaks to a family inside a white walled historic house

A man wearing blue in a grassy park with high stone walls launches a water propelled rocket

Two white historic houses by the side of a road and sandwiched between two trees. The sky above is blue

I’m pleased to report that Hugh Miller’s Big Birthday Weekend 2025 was a resounding success! 🥳

Check out some of the stuff we got up to! 🎊

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A white marble bust of a man with mutton chops wearing a pink rosette in front of a blue wall

A black ammonite fossil half buried in brown sand

A water bottle fashioned into a rocket sitting on a grass field. A cartoon astronaut is inside the bottle

Two white historic buildings sandwiched between two trees

Happy 223rd birthday to the big man - born #OnThisDay in 1802. So proud to be able to carry on Hugh Miller’s legacy of making science accessible to thousands of people! 🎂

Celebrate his birthday with us tomorrow at Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Museum - celebrations kick off at 11:00am in Cromarty! 🥳

Is his grave accessible? Everytime I’ve been to Greyfriars the section he’s buried in always seems to be closed off to the public

A large body of water, Loch Ness in Scotland, with a sloping hill on the horizon and a tree in the bottom Left foreground

A body of water, Loch Ness in Scotland, with a tree in the foreground on the left and mountains on the horizon

A statue of the Loch Ness Monster covered in yellow, red, and blue ribbons sitting in a small grass park

There’s gotta be a monster in here surely, right?

Right…? 🦕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿