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The cover of the first issue of the new Concrete series, Stars Over Sand
Valentine comic strip, Maybe page 1
A 1960 Fleetway pop magazine called Valentine with Elvis on the cover A 12" single by Ludwig Amadeus Horzon featuring Peaches A Cd single of Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack with an HMV Import sticker A DVD of the Brian De Palma film The Black Dahlia The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus
A selection of records about real people
A newspaper court report about a man fined £10 for dangling a five year old boy over a motorway bridge in Glasgow
Newspaper report of Gordon Strachan signing for Aberdeen
Ads for new properties in Dalgety Bay and North Queensferry
A newspaper article about preservation of architectural artefacts from the Glasgow Gorbals Palace of Varieties
A review of the movie Black Joy starring Trevor Thomas and Norman Beaton
A full page advert explaining when different areas in the South of Scotland might be affected by power cuts due to industrial action
Newspaper coverage of a plan to limit growth in Livingston to benefit inner Edinburgh. Also plans for a petro-chemical works at Cobbinshaw
A 1977 newspaper story about Aberdeen University buying a Honeywell 66/80 computer
A newspaper article suggesting CIA involvement in the plot to assassinate Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley
A 1977 advert for weekend train journeys from Edinburgh to London
The cover of The Scotsman newspaper from November 4th 1977
Artwork hanging on the wall for the first page of the story Flesh from the comic 2000AD from 1977
A crisp roll made with Co-op dill pickle flavour crisps
A packet of Party Pik biscuits
A bowl of very thick minestone
A Tunnocks teacake in red and silver foil wrapping and a cup of coffee,
A bacon roll and a glass of raspberry kefir
The current issue of The Wire with white cover
A utility cabinet in Prestonpans with a large blue sticker promoting the album When Does It Become Real? by local band The Rah's
A panel from today's episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! A youth is listening to headphones. The text reads "Research shows that music listened to between the ages of 13 and 17 leaves a deep, lasting emotional impact."
Today's episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not? as delivered to gocomics subscribers, but illegible because no black ink in the image
A still from the Simpsons episode Bart The Cool Kid, shown on E4 last night. Homer and his drinking buddies have decided to wear fashionable sportswear.
King Kong statue by Nicholas Monro which used to be at Ingliston market
12" single of Computer Love by Zapp with the label coloured red with felt tip pen
A marked down packet of Hobnobs with the Prestonpans shoreline in the background
One of the three stories making up today's Ripley's Believe It Or Not! comic strip as provided by gocomics. It refers to a Flat Earth Cruise that was being organised for 2020.
Four 1980s Groo comics
A drawing by me of the font and a detail of the stained glass window behind it at Whitekirk Church in East Lothian. The font and the window both feature the descending dove motif.
The cover of Bastard Bunny comic #1 from 1991
A sticker on a lamppost in Edinburgh, December 2019. It says "Consider the possibility that you're wrong about something"
An anthropomorphic green pepper says "I'm not a tomato person", inspired by a YouTube restaurant reviewer saying the same line
A hard boiled Lidl extra large egg
A calendar puzzle solved for January 1st
Screenshot of search results for bouillabaisse
The view today from the coastal path at Prestonpans, Edinburgh in the distance
A ScotRail class 43 engine, a repurposed British Rail InterCity 125, at Aberdeen station
Jamie Reid prints and artwork at the Worm Gallery in Aberdeen. Forbidden Planet flyer in the glass case in the foreground
The cover of the 1976 Buster Book