Piers

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HM King Piers of Peterborough, Emperor of East Anglia. An original piece by the author. I like secateurs. Cats, woodwork, metalwork, gardening and whimsy. If you don’t create, you can only consume. Nominally editor of Complete Car Builder magazine.

A little tabby lies on her left side, sprawled over a dirty cream-coloured cushion. Her eyes are tight shut, her paws are white. Nobody should disturb her rest.
Cover of Death on the Trans-Siberian Express by C J Farmington.
A man in a leather apron, welding gloves and jacket and welding helmet stands before a white door. The apron is tan coloured, the gloves red, the jacket navy blue and the helmet black.
EBay listing for a Casio J-50 Jogging Pace Runner. I loved this watch and wore one daily for about three years as a teen. Where is it now? They want £730…
A much younger, thinner, hairier, more handsome me in a leather jacket, white Plug from Bash Street Kids tee. I am looking away to the right, wearing rimless glasses.
A rapidly growing melon in front of a smaller, but equally rapidly growing melon. The big one is Melvin. The smaller, Elvin. Melvin is bigger than a big man’s fist.
Ghastly AI ‘painting’ with hands melted together in the shell of someone’s back.
Finn, a black and white cat, sitting on my knee and peering up at me. Greenery in the background. His eyes are yellow.
BBC News thumbnail. “Man abandoned as baby finds birth family after 65 years”.
Screenshot of a section of the Met Office app for Peterborough, showing 30% 4pm, 40% 5pm, and 30% 6pm chances of rain.
A cartoon chap with a side paring and moustache sips from a cup of tea he lowers the cup and exclaims ‘Bloody hell’.
Picture of a piece card in a pub. NEW Pilfer £5.50
A 44mm diameter spacer made of aluminium. It’s essentially a big fat washer. It is trapped between the yellow axle spigot and the bright red of the new, metal wheel fitted to the sack truck.
A very blurry orange photo of Dr Mand and sister at a gig. I think.
A tiny melon swelling at the base of a flower
Met Office app showing Sunday has a good 30-40% chance of rain all day. This weather is now hotly anticipated by yours truly.
Weather forecast for the week, today being 22° then averaging 27° every other day.
A lake reflects the blue of the sky above. Near us, green duck weed and algae mix to create a palette of greens overshadowed by rushes, trees, and reeds. All is alive with sunlight and glows as only a high summer day can.
A moss covered mill wheel churns in the water of the race, seen from the bridge over the top. The mill buildings tower over us. The wheel makes a chopping, sloshing noise as it turns.
The acid green cover of Fair Play by Louise Hegarty, featuring a King playing card of Swords
The Hair Bear Bunch with the bucket hat one in the middle. He looks cool.
The meadow shortly before sunset. Little white clouds drift in a blue sky, below an ill-defined path winds its way through a field of grasses and flowers.
Pink mallow flowers of a Lavatera against green leaves.
A chap at Formula 1 doing the balance machine bit with my wheel. Other machinery stands in the background. Her is leaning over behind the wheel removing the balance weights.
A Gucci ad. A tall man looking oike a Norwegian trawler man stands next to a shorter man who resembles an Asian trying too hard to be Howard Carter.
A geologist awarded the golden spike but using a carrot to demonstrate it.
A black and white cat lies curled up nearest the camera, and a tabby top right of frame. Both are sleeping on a folded duvet, sinking into the padding. The revealed underside of the duvet cover is a geometric design of pale grey.
A cake rests on the lid of a Quality Street tub. The cake is 8” round and in the loo we can see segments of apple embedded round the perimeter. The cake is a rich golden brown. The background is foliage.
A fat bearded buffoon looks lovingly at a wooden spoon covered in pale yellow cake batter. We can see the bowl bottom left of frame. He wears a dark blue polo shirt. His beard and hair is mostly white. His face is tanned. His nose is red. He’s wears glasses on his face.
A black and white cats lies superman-arms towards the lens, his nose resting between atop a duvet covering my legs. Beside him, lower and tucked down by my side, a small tabby stretches out. With her head resting on curled paws.
A cartoon man with a side parting and moustache in the first frame sips a cup of tea, and in the second he sets the cup down and a speech bubble has him saying ‘bloody hell’.
The cover of Stop Overthinking by Nick Trenton. It is red, with a mass of words on black forming the shape of a hunan head in profile. White text is above and below this. “23 Techniques to relieve stress, stop negative spirals, declutter your mind, and focus on the present’.
The cover of a birthday card. The card is off-white. On it are drawn five plant labels with pointed bottom ends, sketched to look like wood. Across the top and bottom it says ‘For the amateur gardener cut-out plant markers’. The markers are labelled L-R: Dead. Nearly Dead. Weed? Didn’t plant this and finally NO IDEA.
A still from Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy. The mummy (r) is about 18” taller than either Abbott or Costello.
A man hammering a carrot into a rockface. He wears a red sweater, blue jeans, ans a cap.
A black and white cat (left) and a tabby cat (right) lie on their sides, heads away from us, in long grass (everywhere). The shade is dappled. Their legs are to the right. They look very relaxed.
@redjolt posting about Blobby in carbonate making like it’s the most normal thing in the world, with a separate @ewacat post below telling people to mistrust those who post about Blobby like it’s a perfectly normal thing to do.
A yellow tea rose. No idea of variety.
A tabby cat sits in long grass under dappled shade, her tail extended towards us, looking over he shoulder with a wistful expression.
I’m sure this has been done a million times already. The Burger King generator showing Succulent Chinese Meal in red letters between the buns, and Democracy Manifest! Below.
IDRlabs.com’s Narcissism Spectrum Test. After 40 questions the result for me is ‘Your narcissism is low’. Blimey, I should think so. Those questions are outrageous!
Slow down, hedgehogs crossing.
A mass of pink, purple, cream and yellow flowers on a green bush.
A dark blue Triumph 2500 saloon. Rather nice.
Two bright cerise tulips seen obliquely from above. The petals taper and twist in a fancy way. The centres, by the stamens, are pale white. The background is green vegetation.
L-R a Black and Tan dachshund looking wary. An oddly cheerful Putin. Both are stickers placed over a photo of Snettisham beach.
Closeup of some text stating “Rent-a-Dog”.
A small tabby cat reclines in long grass. Her is right in the lens and the her face is lifted and turn towards the camera. We can see her white bib. A wooden picket fence runs across the background, and what sky can be seen is bright blue.
Screenshot of BBC News headline: ‘I don’t know why they’re coming’: Australians on Harry and Meghan’s visit. Hilarious.
Faked album cover from the early 70s entitled ‘Ol Ticklefingers/Bobby Claws/The fabulous “12 DIGIT” sound. It features a David Niven-like chaps at a Hammond Organ with comically extended fingers. Track listing: Tickle My Heart/Fingers of Love/Handy Man/God Rolled Two Sixes/A a touch of Romance/Uncle’s Lap/Diddlin’ Daddy/12 Step Waltz/Love Glove
A fat, bearded oaf gazes at his small black and white cat, who rests a paw on his oaf’s chest and gazes back. The pic is blurry because old phone and cracked screen protector.