Rob McManus

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One should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of ones life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

A giant tunnocks tea cake bringing the commonwealth games opening ceremony to a close

Text reads “Memoro Italia, Latin for Remember Italy”: it isn’t.

A statue of Cybele also known as Magna Mater

A 'Dialogues des Carmelites' greetings card from Glyndebourne featuring nuns being led to the guillotiine. Inexplicably available at less then half price

A standard semi detached house in Wolvercote with an extraordinarily ugly extension

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

Bald eagle attacking Donald Trump

Cover of The Cow who Fell in the Canal showing a cow floating down the canal on a raft

Tom Cruise in Top Gun laughing and pumping his fist

Bunny sign on M40 Motorway just before junction with M42

List of events at the Matterley Estate near Winchester from WW2 to dance music festivals more recently

Some Czech Hedgehog tank obstacles

Don Camillo (L) and Peppone (R) from the Little World of Don Camillo

Excerpt from Karl Wallinger's Guardian Obituary about the royalties he received from Robbie Williams' cover of She's the One

Tripadvisor placing in first rank the 300th best (out of 301) B&Bs in Siracusa, Sicily, presumably due to payment from the owners

Harbour bridge looking across to Mumbai

A Tuktuk passing a row of workshops in Bandra West, Mumbai