Adam Cain

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Ordnance Survey Map of Roman Britain showing main geographical features (hills, rivers etc) with place names in Latin. No modern features (railways, Birmingham etc.)
Several clumps of spring flowers: from the top, Brunnera "Jack Frost" with heart-shaped, silvery leaves with green veins, and tiny blue flowers; then two Erythroniums, with creamy white drooping bell-shaped flowers, opening out to inverted star shapes, and marbled green spear-shaped leaves (the flowers of the furthest clump have yet to open) and, near the bottom, two clumps of celandines with bright yellow flowers and small bright green heart-shaped leaves.
Audrey Hepburn still photo as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. She is sitting, dressed in white lace with a high collar, long sleeves and gloves, with a huge broad brimmed hat. The hat is black lined white, with the white inner lining clealry displayed by the tilt of the brim. The brim is highly tilted over her left eye. There is a vast arrangement of feathers and ribbons on one side.
Octagonal table c. 1m high, approx 30cm across, made of marquetry. The feet form Islamic style arches.
View from my bedroom window. Grey sky, some more grey sky, then a grey line of hills behind a screen of treetops (mainly black yew trees, with some bare twiggy branches of field maples.)
A woman in some sort of sun dress sits on a beach under a wet umbrella.
Large red rose ("Dublin Bay") in a vase along with a spray of smaller white roses ("Tranquility")
Cover of “When William Came”, by Saki, a novel describing life in London after conquest by Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Kaiser wears a Prussian military uniform with medals and sports a humungous handlebar moustache
Close up photograph of apple blossom. At the top a cluster of five buds in shades of pink are about to burst, below another cluster has one flower fully out showing white petals, surrounded by pink buds, white five-petalled flower clusters are at the bottom.
Jan Pienkowski illustration for Joan Aiken’s telling of the story of Baba Yaga. In silhouette, against a golden background as if of a fire, a slender girl in a ragged dress stands on the left; on the right, a rickety cottage stands on a single monstrous giant chicken’s leg. Through a window in the cottage, against an eldritch green glow, is silhouetted the witch Yaba Yaga. In between is a gate made of human bones light by lanterns made of human skulls.
Galanthus "Lady Beatrix Stanley". A snowdrop flower with unusually long white outer perianths (petals if you like, but technically they aren't, quite) and short inner perianths bearing tiny green marks, like drooping green eyelids
Painting of harvest by Brueghel. On the left, reapers in white shirts and grey hose scythe wheat which reaches their shoulders; on the right men and women lie or sit on ground cleared of wheat, which is stacked or lying in bundles, taking refreshments.
A bloke in a blue jumper holding a baby wrapped in a hospital towel.
Marginal illustration from medieval illuminated manuscript showing St Dunstan using blacksmith's tongs to tweak the nose of a devil. Dunstan is in Archbishop's robes, the devil his a hairy beast.
Beech hedging turning brown in Autumn. A mass of small leaves, a few still green some turning yellow, most brown especially at the top of the hedge.
Kwai Chang Caine, protagonist of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu"
Puppet from 1970s TV Show Captain Scarlet
A black cat with white throat and paws, sat on top of a bird's nest-box
An image of a mosaic from Ravenna depicting the Empress Theodora with her ladies and two priests. She wears a brown cloak hanging in folds
British 1st Class postage stamp depicting Great Uncle Bulgaria from the 1970s BBC TV Series "The Wombles" based on the books by Elisabeth Beresford. To be honest, if that means nothing to you, it's a bit hard to know where to begin.
Book cover of 1st edition of The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff. A Roman soldier wearing a lion skin over his armour, with his face appearing between the open jaws, carries a golden eagle standard in one hand and a sword in the other, while behind him march ranks of Roman legionaries. Blue hills rise in the background.
Phalacrocorax aristotelis (European Shag.) According to Bird Spot website ("The place for birds"): Adult shags in breeding plumage are black all over with a dark green glossy sheen. They have crests on their heads which curl forward, and a bright yellow gape. The bill is black, the eyes are emerald green, and the legs and webbed feet are dark. During winter, shags are duller and lack the crest on the head. But then, are't we all?
Assorted lavenders in pots on display for sale.
Two big muscly men wearing crash helmets standing on pillars and fighting with giant drumstick things
Sun going down over the Severn on the left, Cotswold edge to the right. Tall grasses and wildflowers in foreground, green fields with long shadows beyond.
Front page of Daily Telegraph for 27th May 2024: Headline "Young royals face National Service in Sunak plan"
Photograph of a young Aubrey Hepburn wearing a halter-top dress, long black gloves, a chain of pearls and with a cigarette holder in her left hand
St Sebastian by Botticelli
Apple tree against blue sky: ladybirds too small to see, but there
A medieval manuscript illustration of a woman harvesting penises from a tree. Why? God knows, she just is, alright.
Ivory figure of a medieval Norse bishop looking sad