Gavin

@a-e-oldman.bsky.social

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Books, plants, old comics, Mad magazine, humour, satire, science, politics, space, history, border terriers. “Always look at the sunny-side-up side of life.” 🍳

A female border terrier sitting on a Persian rug.
Dark green, almost purple leaves with a white flower. A kind of chilli, but I don’t know what kind.
Tiny red chillies standing upright on a chilli plant
Fish chilli leaves (green and white) and green fruit
Ripe Manzano chillies hanging on a Manzano shrub
A pile of feijoas cut in half and scooped.
A basket of feijoas
Feijoa blossoms
A comic strip from MAD Magazine showing a mental health professional over sharing with a patient.
The cover of the book “Al Jaffee’s Mad Life” by Mary-Lou Weisman
American artist Charles Allan Gilbert’s All Is Vanity (1892), the drawing employs an illusion in which the scene changes to a human skull when seen from a distance.
A border terrier staring at the camera.
Cover to Grateful Dead Comix #1, showing a skeleton playing a guitar.
Australian MAD Magazine cover featuring three famous Australian cricket players and a MAD branded cricket bat with an AE Newman face shape carved out of it by a very fast Newman shaped cricket ball.
Young tabby cat looking at the camera. A black and white photo.
Tabby cat on an outside chair in the sun.
The Beatles Anthology Collection
Four fresh chillies, and three bottles of chilli sauce
Culley’s hot sauce. Reaper!
The cover of the book The Haphazard gourmet by Richard Gourmet, illustrations by Paul Coker Junior
Border terrier curled up with her favourite tennis ball.
Panel from Relish by Lucy Knisley showing her father reading a high class book while she reads a MAD magazine
A can of spicy pickle beer (“chilli cucumber dill pickle sour”)
Tiny scrawny tomato seedlings.
The latest MAD Magazine, featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A packet of 10 fish pepper seeds
Crispy corn with garlic, herbs, tomato and either prawns or cheese and olives - ready to be cooked.
A dog sitting on a staircase landing staring down at you.
Border terrier sleepy in the sun.
A bluff oyster with Korean flavours, in an oyster shell.
Mad Magazine Special #10 cover
Mad Magazine cover issue #167
Bottle of Hetman (?) vodka. Ukrainian spirit. Ukrainian leather wallet in the background.
A border terrier resting its head on a soft toy rabbit
A teacher kissing the feet of different pressure groups
A bottle of vodka with a wallet in the background. The vodka has a scary picture of a tough-looking man.
Different countries selling military arms lined up like supermarket check outs.
Different nations line up in supermarket lines to buy weapons
A man who has brushed his teeth with toothpaste that could be too spicy?
A set of bottles of Culley’s hot sauces, numbered 1 to 10.
A photo of the label on a Kaitaia Fire chili pepper sauce bottle.
Border terrier with a things she has gathered: a tennis ball and a jandal/slip slop/flip flop/thong.
And elderly Border Terrier sleeping on a comfortable blanket, ignoring the world.
A person getting a delivery of Amazon books looking at the owner of a small bookshop next door as he opens or closes the door. They look at each other. You can’t see the expression on the shop owners face. The person getting the Amazon books order looks a little rueful.
A cartoon of a driver distracted by a small falling rock and driving over a cliff. The sign in the foreground says “watch for falling rocks”.
A packet of coffee beans and a coffee bean grinder
Border terrier wearing a Christmas tree hat.
Water colour (?) painting of some flowers.
Renaissance pen and ink drawing, with a hand being increasingly badly drawn.
Santa giving extravagant gifts. Turns out to be the devil. From Mad Magazine.
A smug travel agent with a harrowing photo in the background. The text says, “Getting there is half the fun.”