Robert Ball

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A picture of Mister Sugden, or Bobby Charlton as he is in his own mind
A wee drawing of a woman I saw in a gallery
A drawing of a panda, with bamboo shoots and as at this point I'd fully committed to cliché, a rising sun.
A photo of an intercity 125 - maybe - passing a power station in all its splendour
A slighty amusing combination of images in a Pinterest stream
A picture of the character Mother from The Avengers, no not that one the other one.
What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison? You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.
A coloured pencil drawing of a wading bird. I made some of the colouring up and am now living in fear of wading bird experts.
A coloured pencil drawing of our dog. I showed it to him and he was inspired to indifference. Took me ages as well.
A drawing of a penguin
An image from Flash Gordon, where Klytus is ‘fannying about’ with the Earth’s weather system because Emperor Ming - the Intergalactic scallywag - is bored.
A drawing of a knight with a large moustache, a whopper in fact. He's holding a crooked sword. His thin arms and interest in patterned textiles suggest he's not cut out for swordplay.
Some pictures of The Iron Giant illustrated by Laura Carlin, there is a tea stain on the cover from me, or coffee, I may need to have a wee taste.
The most beautiful book I own - probably - is The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes, a 1968 hardback. I think reading things like this as a child ‘does things’ to a person.
A picture of the Tomorrow People, scanned from a magazine, you can see the lovely moire pattern
A doodle of a massive swede. A boat. A kipper. A noggin. A napper.
I kept thinking of Jed, Howard Jones’ backing dancer/mime when I was watching Frankenstein which did undercut the high-minded intentions of the film a bit.
Alien Salvation, a comic written by Dave Gibbons with Mike Mignola art inked by Kevin Nowlan
A pencil drawing of a woman carrying a courgette
Businesses putting Christmas trees up, it’s four months away. What would the baby Jesus make of it all?
An advert for some kind of yoga mat with the compelling slogan ‘expensive for what it is’
This is a picture of Superman. He looks like someone’s dad- all thin legs and beer belly, an Adonis in other words.
in this particular set photo, the actor who plays Superman as a toddler has a wafer thin resemblance to Oliver Reed, enough to make a very weak joke.
The Graduate film poster
four black and white photographs of model makers from various films working on miniature sets.
Crystal Palace is shortened to ‘cry’ on tv coverage. Which is used online to annoy fans of other teams, sometimes accompanied by footage of MBappe doing an eye rubbing goal celebration, which to be fair is dead annoying.
A poster for the Final Programme, an adaptation of the Michael Moorcock book which I’m now dying to read. Or read again, I can’t remember.
My dog howling at church bells. Which is a fair response.
My Flashes username is robertmball
A coloured pencil drawing of a pensive looking woman. What is she thinking about? Who knows? (chips)
If there’s a special someone in your life have you considered nutrient rich ox liver bites? (Pictured)
Various Black Friday deals on various types of tape. If anything I’ve made it sound more interesting than the actual image.
The cover of 65 Great Tales of The Supernatural, published by St Michael who was obviously a wrong 'un
I’m saving a photoshop file as a Scitex CT which is unforgivably rakish of me
A poster for the stressful film Strange Darling which I found quite stressful
A terrible photo of a parakeet