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seeking a cure for the Daily Express • exploring the borderlands of history and myth • unusual objects • tennis

An Edward Lear drawing of the jumblies who are little humanoids and the in about which is a sieve it looks a bit like a riddle with our large white flag and a big pot there's about I guess about eight jumblies some of whom are waving their arms
This is an unpleasant ornament depicting a pumpkin sitting on a toilet reading a book called gardening tips and there are some toadstools and autumn leaves strewn around the base of the toilet
A packet of pink and white sweets called Swizzle squashies drumstick. The sweets themselves are essentially small flat pink and white rectangles and their resemblance to drumsticks doesn't really go much beyond them being solid rather than liquid or gas.
A red grape that's two conjoined berries it resembles an arse complete with hole where the stalk was
This is a screenshot of an SMS conversation between myself and Plusnet they contact me and try and paste to me and to taking part in some customer service fractions of a with the option to opt out by texting stop back but then they send me second SMS a couple of seconds after the first one and asking me to give values between zero and ten I text back stop but by this time it's too late apparently to actually stop this and it refuses to accept any response other than the number it really pissed me off this
The three paddles used by race walking inventilators to warn the athletes for taking both feet off the ground at the same time or bending their knee or just going totally rogue. two of them are yellow and the last one is red
Are copy of the usborne guide to the supernatural world, the cover depicts are fanged skull with demonic eyes
Screenshot of a headline from the East Lothian courier which has a picture of a white van in on otherwise pretty much empty car park and they're headline beneath it is snack van in closed down shops car park would not be a good look
5 really disgusting hideous awful garden months which are meant to be worms except they've got faces with googly big eyes and buck teeth and so forth and the larger ones are wearing hats and they are simply revolting
A hand holding four rubbery plastic bendy sticks with each with different textures
At the start of the wall coffee which in any case was usually chicory mixed with sugar beet became roasted nuts flavoured with coal tar later this became too expensive and was replaced by roasted beach nuts and acorns but latest still during the turnip winter of 1916 to 17 every spur acorn was used to feed pigs and coffee was made from carrots and turnips
A fingertip pointing at an absolutely miniature Clementine segment on a slate tile background, at its widest the segment is probably about four or five maximum millimeters across I can't be more exact because I've eaten it now and I didn't measure it
text reads as you step through the doorway you're greet is by an entrance hall steeped in the Whispers of centuries past adorned with a feature wood ceiling and original tiles that echo with the footsteps of those who came before here are downstairs retreat await complete with a modern convenience a toilet and a functional utility room with seamless access to the rear courtyard venture further into the heart of this abode and you'll find yourself enveloped in the vast expanse of the inner hallway a space brimming with possibilities whether it becomes a cozy family room a bustling office or a malaysia's haven from music enthusiast the choices used to make beyond lies the culinary realm a space as kitchen a scent of staircase each step a journey through time leading you to a realm of tranquility and repose here to generous double bedroom stand sentinel accompanied by a versatile single bedroom or office space ready to adapt to your every whim a family bathroom offers solace
This is a set of gashapon figurines featuring a skunk emitting a cloud of toxic gas from its arse end. The main image features the skunk producing a closed your same thing for head and front legs of our male lions within the background a cartoon owl and two squirrels looking on in horror smaller images to a similar scenario but featuring the skunk producing closures and playing a buffalo a shark and a snake of some swords and those another one that's too small for me to really grasp what it depicts at all but they're just absolutely extraordinary fruits of a very unusual mind
A group of revolting little pink humanoids like evil jelly babies carrying a sack on the shoulders in the Twilight this is an illustration from a children's picture book
Two models wearing brightly colored suits which are ridiculously long to the point of unwearability
A man balanced upside down on his head on the back of a horse firing a gun towards the horses rear this is some sort of etching or woodcut
The top part of a jury citation letter from the Scottish courts and tribunals service dated 30th of July 2025
A boxed set of two nail clippers. The box is mainly black and the background is wood
Screenshot of a headline reading minister no one died in fires except for those who did. beneath this is a photograph of a middle aged male Cypriot politician captioned justice minister marios hartsiotis
A rightmove advertisement for a modern boxy looking house in Glasgow whose address is listed as Investment Drive
A copy of a small red hardback book called whatever happened to Tanganyika with a sort of wood cut thing of a globe in the corner
A ceramic ocarina made in the shape of puffin it's a fairly realistic looking puffin apart from the holes in its wing and and upper end of its tail needed to facilitate its use as an ocarina the expression on its face I would describe this somewhat doubtful
A red mug with a white handle text on the mug says self love club this is written inside our heart shape with some little spangly stars around it there's a 99 pence price sticker on this mug
Children's book illustration of our stereotypical burglar wearing a stripy jumper and eye mask and carrying a torch he has a sack over his back with a cat staring mournfully out of it
A smiling middle-aged white man is standing outdoors wearing a zip-up cardigan that has a cable pattern around the shoulders it's a kind of ivory beige color behind him is a building with a bowed window. Text on this image shows that it is a knitting pattern for the cardigan it's described as the Howard's way collection by emu and the gentleman depicted is indeed an actor who played Ken master's in in Howard's way back in the late 1980s
A small and round model of a human head being attacked by a lion or leopard type animal which is smaller than the man's head the man's facial expression suggest disgruntlement rather than agony very strange object
We're looking across Bristo square in Edinburgh a with Teviot house in the background it's still covered with scaffolding and there's a bit of the McEwan hall on the right in the central part of the image the ground as covered by bright pride rainbow stripes and there are little pillar-like table things pronging out of it
The front cover of Owen hatherleys book the alienation effect how Central European emigrate transformed the British 20th century there are photos on the cover of a man holding a large wide angle camera you can just see the top half of his head over it a bit of brutalist architecture and a family of two men and two women they might not be a family for all I know having a picnic all these photos are black and white
The interior of a room where the walls and ceiling have been covered with artex which is a kind of hideous textured paint really really thick everything else about the room is quite unpleasant too including a horrible frilly pelmet on the bay window
An old black and white photo of a zookeeper holding open up pelican's beak and pouring cod liver oil down its throat the pelican has affronted look on its beaky face, poor creature
1970s modern building formed by a low wide cylinder and a much taller narrower one. There's a French flag and a cross of Lorraine in the foreground and a middle aged man.
An image of the fourth rail bridge with an arrow above it following the contours of the top of the bridge to indicate my mistaken belief that this was a roller coaster I was very young at the time
A copy of Bee Wilson's book swindled the cover depicts some Victorian jellies and breads and so forth and the byline is from poison sweet to counterfeit coffee the dark history of the food cheats
A very generic Street on a modern housing estate this screenshot is taken from Google maps and the streets name is labeled as penguin parade
On the left hand side we can see a 17th century man wearing a periwig and his jaw is hugely prognathic hisnose is pretty huge too. on the right is a yassified image of the same man with a Kardashian like androgynous altered face
A person in a pig costume standing next to Jonathan meades the pig person is holding a pan containing some uncooked sausages
A variety of items from the Dennis the menace fan club including a grubby plastic wallet a badge with Dennis dogs gnasher with googly eyes that have gone a bit yellow because so that old and a cardboard membership card with some comedy vocabulary for members to use to identify each other there's also a badge from the plug sports and social club which came from the nutty comic this is a bit of a rarity and it's neon bright colors
Text reads no rise in price of wincarnis yet
ceramic tile depicts two adult penguins and their tiny chick hatching from an egg
This is a fashion shot of a model wearing a really really unpleasant outfit she's wearing up pink top with sorts of short bell sleeves somehow attached to the bodice but not covering the shoulders but most importantly she's wearing the most hideous trousers that get loose from about the knee point downwards and have large gaps on the outer edges creating a strange sort of conical look she's also wearing high heels Barbie pink pointy shoes
An 19th century cartoon depicting a railway poterl and a woman with a whole bunch of animals he's telling her that cats are dogs rabbits a dogs and so are parrots but a tortoise which is what he is holding counts as an insect and so there's no charge for it
Stained glass window depicting an angel banishing Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden
Anneic Sharma a financial planner at varet financial planning says he has seen lots of examples of older people shifting their focus to prioritize spending after October's announcement one individual took its entire family including grandchildren to an amazing villa in Thailand for a month having caught with up with him after the takeaway was that you couldn't put a price on those memories says Sharma likewise cook says several of his clients have bitten at the bullet which is highlighted and opted to pay to take their families on holiday one has booked a trip to France for them and their family as well as a cruise he adds others a gifting their family members money to book their own holiday s
At athol's autopsy a doctor who query the suggestion of foul play was forced to lick the lining of the dead old stomach after which he almost died and was after so long as he lived sickly this was cited as proof that atholl had been murdered however it seems somewhat possible that the doctors illness may have been a consequence of his enforced licking of a cadavers decomposing organ rather than evidence of residual poison
A copy of John hills book good time as bad times the welfare myth of them and us
A set of four hair products made in collaboration between Pantene and the estate of Keith haring they all are packaged in gold with Keith harings characteristic figures holding a heart on them the set includes shampoo conditioner and hair mask
Screenshot taken from the styscraper game showing a stack of items including canisters of nuclear waste pallets mattresses plant pots and pigs piled up in that tower which is on the verge of collapse the total height of the tower is 13.51 metres
A black and white old road safety poster where the pathetically un memorable pseudo mnemonic splink is used to encourage children to pay attention when they're crossing the road