Alison Foster

@alisonfoster.bsky.social

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Zooarchaeologist based in Worcestershire. Malvern Buzzards Running Club. Cats (well, just the one cat). Power metal

Narrow, steep bank of flowers and shrubs by a flight of concrete steps.
Black and white cat perched on the back of a grey office chair, looking back over her shoulder.
White moth with folded wings on dark green leaves Photo: Premaphotos
Photo of power metal band Unleash the Archers, with their band logo in gold in the foreground. They have long hair and are wearing black leather. They look very happy, which is de rigueur for power metal bands
Build a model car kit in charity shop window. Blue Trabant. £5
Two slightly different iridescent green beetles. Rose chafer (left) and noble chafer (right)
Same green beetle
Quite large, iIridescent green beetle photographed on the end of my finger.
Black and white cat sitting on a couple of printed A4 sheets by an open laptop.
Small, mauve wild flower in long grass
Large moth hovering by a purple flower.
Steep, narrow bank covered in weed-proof membrane and gravel chippings, held down by lumps of granite
Bronze head of a lynx-like feline set on tall, simple black pedestal and positioned against a rustic stone wall and wooden door. An identical head and pedestal can be seen in the background.
White moth with small dark spots on wings and a furry white thorax and head
Black and white cat sitting by microscope
Orange-brown beetle, long antennae
Photo of a blue tit with peanuts. Text reads "Love Garden Birds. A fantastic source of energy, protein, and fat, especially during colder months".
Decorations around a natural spring feeding a brick trough built into a grass bank. A large board with the 'One for sorrow...' magpie poem written out. Blue and white ribbons with two magpies around a nest with eggs and shiny objects
Relief carved stone dragon surrounded by the words County Library
Fluffy, ginger Highland cow, scratching its nose with a hind hoof
Grey office chair occupied by a black and white cat
Black and white cat sitting in IKEA poang chair, superimposed writing reads "baklava thief"
Man, long hair, playing electric guitar on stage. Stage lighting is green.
Male folk musicians on stage playing guitars, bass, violin and drums. Backlighting is blue. Foreground is silhouetted audience with raised arms
Furry, ginger flying insect with long, straight proboscis. Not my photo! 📸 Stefan Rotter
White t-shirt with colour illustrations of ten British moths with names
Photo of a Tory next to Churchill statue. "Winston Churchill is a hero. He's earned his place on our Five Pound Note. He must not be replaced with an Otter"
Black and white cat lying on her left side on a grey wooden floor in a patch of sunlight. She is stretching out a paw to the camera.
Two Gauls carrying three wild boars. A small dog runs after them
Chinchilla in a zoo. Small rodent with very dense silver grey fur
A row of happy-looking runners in a sunny park. Trees, blue sky. They are holding up a banner which says "Malvern Buzzards Running Club"
Photo of a young man with dark, curly hair wearing motorcycle leathers
Two horse bones shaped to make skates, one with leather straps, in a museum case
Two tiny pink and white rubber ducks, with breast cancer pin and wristband
Poster advertising a metal festival, Heidenfest 2026, at KK's Steel Mill, Wolverhampton. The band names are in gold lettering on a black and greeny-blue background. Headliners are Korpiklaani and Finntroll
Black and white cat looks up at the photographer with an appealing expression
Black and white photo of two musicians in a pub. A woman plays a violin, just behind her a man is singing into a microphone
A mocked up book cover of Andrei Kurkov's novel Death and the Penguin. Trump is seen in a snowy, mountainous landscape walking into the distance with a penguin. A Greenland flag is planted in the snow. In the sky, a huge, shadowy Grim Reaper figure is leaning towards trump in a threatening manner
A three piece baroque group playing violin, harpsichord and an epic lute. Eat your heart out, Jimmy Page
Black and white cat curled up asleep. Her front paws are stretched out in a half-arsed superman pose.
A tabby cat with white chest and paws, purposefully making her way through hock-deep snow
A winter garden with a yellow daffodils blooming
Black and white cat sitting in a half-constructed cardboard cat house. The house is designed to look like Santa's workshop
Black and white cat sitting on a grey carpet. She is looking at the camera - her expression suggests a disappointing but not surprising breakdown in service has occurred.
Large rectangular slab of concrete with pink and blue graffiti, standing in a park landscape with hills in the distance
Black and white cat leaning down from a ledge and fishing with her paw in a plastic yogurt pot full of veg peelings
Black and white cat sitting by a kitchen cupboard, looking up with an expectant expression
Black and white cat asleep on fluffy brown blanket, with cables (old, but not quite obsolete. The cables, not the cat)
Front cover of an archaeology report. Black and white photo of a typical fenland landscape - flat and fairly featureless, with a straight road and a dyke alongside
Black and white cat asleep on a white blanket. She has her right paw over her eyes
Four white sheep on a house roof
Fancy chicken in a grassy paddock, pale grey feathers, yellow legs, fluffy side feathers on its head.
Collection of objects to honour a small black and white cat. Framed photo of cat, picture of skeleton cat in a day of the dead style, little knitted cat, chickylix cat treat, tea light in a small container
Black and white cat looking down from the top platform of a wooden cat tree
Film still from the Munsters, with speech bubbles. Mrs M "You've done nothing to help with this meal, Herman". Mr M "I did the mash".
Tuxedo cat asleep on a fluffy brown blanket
Pregnant/nursing tabby she cat eating small fish off the paving at an urban bus station
A cleaned cod skull lying on a dark blue cloth. It looks very dragonish.