Bethan Angharad

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Imagine something clever and witty.

A ginger & white cat with dirty blackish grey smudges over his nose, mouth, paws and front. From his mid forehead, back over his ears he is almost completely black, like an older man with a very bad dye job.
Two pictures. The first shows Keane Reeves from the back & is captioned “Keanu Reeves”. The second shows a picture of Keanu walking towards the camera & is captioned “Keanu Comes Back”.
Promotional banner attached to a lamppost shows a young woman looking into the distance. The text on the banner says “Queen Mary. Made Different.”
Cover of The Sky is Red by Fr Kenneth Leech
Cover of The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Cover of I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Cover of How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Cover of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Cover of A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavrirel Kay
Cover of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier showing wrought iron gates, behind which is an orange, fiery light and, in the distance, a very grand house.
Cover of The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy by Michael Foley
Cover of Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cover of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Cover of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Cover of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. And a beautiful cover it is too, with ethereal sunshine lighting up dusty, ancient stone steps leading up to a distant door beneath a leaded window. More light shines through the door and beyond that we can glimpse further steps and arches and doorways, stretching away beyond our field of vision.
Cover of God Knows by Joseph Heller
Cover of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Read it.
Cover of The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Cover of Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Cover of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Envelope with the Which? logo at the top. Message on the envelope says “Bethan, become a better gardener”.
Can of Blacks Brewery Pineapple Express Pale Ale.
Cover of The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. Single volume paperback edition with picture of Gandalf with his staff striding forward purposefully on the cover. I originally read it in 3 hardback editions which I still have. And yes, it’s a cliché having LotR in this list, but it’s the truth.
Cover of The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. Cover shows a strange, green, alien looking being dressed in what seems to be a soldiers uniform holding some kind of weapon. God knows why as that has nothing to do with the actual story.
Cover of Dune by Frank Herbert
Cover of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Survey results: 86% woke, 14% child 31% techbro, 69% Luddite 66% hopepilled, 34% doomed 88% Davos, 12% Dubai
Hairy caterpillar on the side of a plant pot.
Copy of book cover King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green.
A large ginger & white cat lies on his back on a patterned rug, his belly exposed, head to one side with eyes closed and one paw flung out dramatically above his head.
A whizzy looking red leaflet with the Royal Mail logo in one corner shouts “2ND CLASS MAIL IS CHANGING” & then in smaller letters, “TO DELIVER A BETTER ALL-ROUND SERVICE”.
Book cover of Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Alfred Molina & Dawn French sitting at a kitchen tale. Title is “Toger & Val have just got in” with BBC logo.
An incredibly handsome ginger and white cat sits on a tree stump surrounded by grass and greenery. I’m told by my daughter, who took the photo, that passers-by were stopping to admire him, and who could blame them?
A business card sized card says “joy is an act of resistance”. It also has the logo of Museum of Homelessness.
An adult Canadian goose and an adult greylag goose stand either side of a group of 5 goslings by a canal.
The head of a ginger & white cat looks out from a low plastic box. Above his head are the slats of a bed.
A large, spherical, white object with some black patches rests in a flower bed. It could be a large, cuddly panda resting on its face.
A grey squirrel in the undergrowth holding a slice of toasted white bread in its mouth.
A ginger and white cat sits looking up with pleading eyes. Who could say no to that furry face?
A table titled “if the UK were a US state where it would rank among 50 states” Table text, under headings “metric” & “rank” reads: Life expectancy - 1st Lowest homicide rate - 1st Lowest gun deaths -1st Lowest prisoner population -1st Healthcare coverage - 1st Paid maternity leave - 1st Statutory paid holiday - 1st Years in education -1st Lowest road deaths - 1st Lowest drug deaths -2nd Minimum wage -3rd Pupil performance -5th Environmental performance - 5th Human development index - 9th Lowest obesity - 10th GDP per capita - 51st
Illustration from Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester of a mouse, wearing glasses & reading a paper, sat cross-legged on a red cotton reel next to a large pair of scissors and a thimble.
An impossibly handsome tabby cat peeps out of the shoe box he is lying in, one paw tucked sweetly under his chin.
Shot of Google reviews on a laptop screen. There are 3x 1 star reviews, each with a comment. First review reads “The manager of our building is a waste of time.”. The second review reads “even if you are lucky enough, the phone line gets disconnected”. The third reads “you can get kill they don’t care if I could give -0 I will”.
A tree blossoming against a clear blue sky. The blossom is a mix of paler pink & darker blush pink. The grass below the tree is verdant green.
A large ginger & white cat curled up on a blue chair which you can tell is his favourite chair due to the thick coating of white hair. He is sleeping.
A pair of feet wearing running shoes except the left shoe is an entirely black Brooks shoe and the right is an ASICS shoe, black upper with a white base and ASICS swirl design.